Roy Cullen 
Beyond Question Period 
Or What Really Goes on in Ottawa

In Beyond Question Period you travel with a Canadian Member of Parliament and discover how challenging, yet exhilirating, the work of an MP can be. Running for election, debating and voting on bills, committee work, constituency work, representing Canada internationally, and speaking at a variety of events – this is just the beginning. How the role of an MP changes in a minority, or a majority government, or in opposition is described with living examples. The cut and thrust of politics in the raw is described for all to see.

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In Beyond Question Period, Roy Cullen draws on his 12½ years in Canada’s House of Commons to describe what really goes on in Ottawa. He pushes beyond the rhetoric of question period and chronicles what the life of an MP is really all about.

Initially elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1996, he was re-elected in the 1997, 2000, 2004, and the 2006 general elections. He retired from the House of Commons in 2008.

As a member of the Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s government, and later under Prime Minister Paul Martin, he served as chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance; as parliamentary secretary to the minister of finance; as parliamentary secretary to the deputy prime minister and the minister for public safety and emergency preparedness; and as chair of the Ontario Liberal caucus. In 2006 he was sworn-in as a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada. He also served as Official Opposition critic for natural resources.

Mr. Cullen lives in Victoria, B.C., Canada, with his wife, Ethne. They have one son, Peter.