Resumen de Bricks and Mortar Not Required: Pop Up and Mobile Constituency Offices

Carol Hughes, Jenny Kwan, Philip Lawrence

• ffice can come (closer) to you. In recent years, many parliamentarians have expanded their community outreach beyond attendance at specific events. By launching mobile or pop up constituency offices, these parliamentarians are bringing the services offered in their bricks and mortar offices to different areas within their ridings. In some cases, serving populations located a significant distance away from their permanent office(s) is a primary motivator.

  In other cases, these offices are set up in popular, high-traffic locations or specific neighbourhoods. Drawing on research conducted by the House of Commons’ Table Research Branch, the Canadian Parliamentary Review reached out to MPs who have recently advertised mobile/pop up offices to ask them about why they started this practice and how they run these events