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On March 20, 2020, one week after both Chambers of Parliament adjourned, the COVID-19 pandemic had grown nearly tenfold to more than 1,000 reported cases. And as the Canada-United States border officially closed to non-essential travel, parliamentary staffers of all stripes were coming to grips with the fact it could be much longer than two weeks before they returned to the Hill.
Anthony Salloum, the NDP’s lobby monitor, told that once MPs began to return to the House of Commons that first summer before the official hybrid format had been implemented, there had been a steep learning curve to adapt to the new normal.
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