-Excerpt- These so-called “little people” can affect Canadian policy. Policy advisors liaise with industry representatives, and lobbyists seeking policy changes, filtering information before it reaches their boss. Some staffers provide briefing notes ahead of meetings and draft questions for key witnesses in committee hearings. By maintaining their bosses’ Facebook and Twitter accounts, they also have a heavy hand in developing an MP’s public persona. Some of the twenty-something staffers work for politicians who hold significant clout — Alykhan Velshi, 27, is director of communications to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney….Income varies from office to office and across parties [the NDP are unionized], so a director of communications might make upward of $120,000, while a staffer to a backbench MP could earn a quarter of that sum.
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