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Title: Defeated MPs coping with Rejection
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 09, 2011, 10:35:15 AM
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/death+thousand+votes+defeated+coping+with+grief+rejection/4751405/story.html

Some rather interesting hyperbole from the MP perspective:
Quote"It's as sudden as death," said one defeated Liberal MP. "The only thing you don't go through is that you don't have to walk into a funeral home and peek into the box and say, 'Well, he was a nice guy.' "

When Canadian researchers interviewed 45 former members of Canada's federal and provincial parliaments within five years of their defeat at the polls and asked how they coped with their "involuntary disengagement", one in three invoked images of death.

Might I recommend this instructional video to out of work MPs?
http://youtu.be/TwI2DTiVSJ0
Title: Re: Defeated MPs coping with Rejection
Post by: Thorin on May 09, 2011, 09:13:08 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 09, 2011, 10:35:15 AM
Might I recommend this instructional video to out of work MPs?
http://youtu.be/TwI2DTiVSJ0

Nice find!
Title: Re: Defeated MPs coping with Rejection
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 09, 2011, 09:29:17 PM
Quote from: Thorin on May 09, 2011, 09:13:08 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 09, 2011, 10:35:15 AM
Might I recommend this instructional video to out of work MPs?
http://youtu.be/TwI2DTiVSJ0

Nice find!

One of my absolute favourite NFB shorts