“I had always assumed that if I made it to Parliament I would not remain a back bencher.”

— Judy LaMarsh

Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 4, Sixty days of decision, p. 46

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“I had always assumed that if I made it to Parliament I would not remain a back bencher.”

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