NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau attends an orientation session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Dave Chan for The Globe and Mail)
NDP MP Pierre-Luc Dusseault arrives on Parliament Hill on May 19, 2011, to attend an orientation session in Ottawa. (Dave Chan for The Globe and Mail)
Newly elected New Democratic Party MPs Mylene Freeman, left to right, Charmaine Borg, Matthew Dube, and Laurin Liu, all McGill University students, are confronted by reporters as they arrive to join other newly elected members of Parliament as they take part in an orientation session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 19, 2011. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Name tags await pickup from newly elected members of Parliament during an orientation day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 19, 2011. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Peter Penashue, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and president of the Queen's Privy Council, picks up his name tag during an orientation session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Dave Chan for The Globe and Mail)