Because the Member I am working for this placement is the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, our offices are at the Ministry, which is a solid ten-minute walk from the main legislative building. This means that whenever I come up to Queen’s Park, I inevitably spend a good deal of time [...]
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The excitement of the Government Caucus Office
Posted in Erica Rayment, Placements on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Coyle’s Farewell
Posted in Erica Rayment on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There have been moments throughout this internship when I am struck by just how lucky we are to have the opportunities that the program presents to us. Attending the farewell party for veteran Queen’s Park journalist (and proud honorary OLIP Intern) Jim Coyle on March 10, was one of those moments. After each of the [...]
Girls’ Government in Kitchener-Waterloo
Posted in Erica Rayment, Placements on January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This week I had the opportunity to go to Kitchener-Waterloo with Mrs. Witmer to help run the first meeting of the Girls’ Government program that I have been working on developing for the past couple of months. Girls’ Government is a program that was first started by MPP Cheri DiNovo three years ago and is [...]
Erica on Ottawa & Quebec
Posted in Erica Rayment, Travel on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chaque fois que je quitte Québec, j’ai envie d’y retourner. J’apprécie toujours l’occasion de pratiquer mon français et la vie politique québécoise me fascine. En toute matière, les grandes questions de culture, d’identité, de langue, des relations avec le gouvernement fédéral et le futur du Québec même sont toujours pertinentes – tous des sujets qui [...]
A busy week
Posted in Erica Rayment, reception on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past week was a whirlwind of after-work events for the interns, including the Churchill Society Dinner, the OLIP Reception and a panel discussion on the place of Ontario in the Canadian Federation hosted by the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation. As the chair of the receptions committee, this made for an especially busy week, [...]
Working in Mrs. Witmer’s Office
Posted in Erica Rayment, Placements on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week marked my first with Mrs. Witmer at the Queen’s Park office. I was glad to have begun my placement the week before during constituency week, since it allowed me to get used to the office and to learn the little details of how things are done before the more fast paced environment that [...]
Erica on joining Elizabeth Witmer’s office
Posted in Erica Rayment, Placements on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The final week before we were given our MPP placements, we were still running around to meetings right up until the very last minute. Stress levels were high in the OLIP office as we put together our ranking lists and all tried to deal with balancing the uncertainty of not knowing where we were going [...]
2010-11 Placements
Posted in Bryan Bossin, Charles Thompson, Erica Rayment, Katherine Preiss, Lisa Marie Williams, Melissa Cernigoy, Michael Smith, Natalie Desimini, Placements, Sasha Tregebov, Thomas Maidwell, z-2010-11 Interns on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The interns will begin their placements on Tuesday 12th October. Bryan Bossin – Ernie Hardeman (PC) Melissa Cernigoy – Gilles Bisson (NDP) Natalie Desimini – Jean-Marc Lalonde (LIB) Thomas Maidwell – Steve Clark (PC) Katherine Preiss – Donna Cansfield (LIB) Erica Rayment – Elizabeth Witmer (PC) Michael Smith – Dave Levac (LIB) Charles Thompson – [...]
Erica Rayment on the first week
Posted in Erica Rayment on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am excited and honoured to be a part of this year’s group of interns. The first few days at Queen’s Park have in some ways been overwhelming – and a definite change from my previous life as a graduate student, teaching assistant (and, more recently, expert cottage lounger). The sheer volume of information that [...]
