I just started getting panic attacks and anxiety, and this emptiness started to come.”Article Continued BelowWernick is no stranger to life around Parliament Hill. In 2018, that often feels more like a motto than an observation on political life. I asked Trudeau in a recent interview about this darker side of political life, and whether some of the things we’ve seen in 2018 made it harder for him to recruit would-be MPs. No one said “that’s just the way life is” when the #MeToo movement started to make itself felt in Canadian political life, that sexual harassment was just part of the job. As we enter 2019, you’d think becoming “broken people” wouldn’t have to be an inevitable consequence of political life, either.

Source: thestar December 31, 2018 21:39 UTC