In an effort to do away with the often negative preconceptions people have about politicians, here's Liberal MHA and cabinet minister Sarah Stoodley taking on The Telegram's 20 Questions.
MHA and provincial cabinet minister Sarah Stoodley was first elected in the St. John's district of Mount Scio in 2019 — Joe Gibbons/The TelegramOut of everything she's learned since getting elected to the House of Assembly in 2019, Sarah Stoodley finds herself most surprised by how much hate people have for politicians.
"I guess generally I find just having in-depth conversations with people . Really understanding what their concerns are, what their views are. Educating myself as well on those concerns. I came into this with one kind of more narrow set of expertise and knowledge. But you quickly have to learn a lot about a lot of things, and to advocate on someone's behalf for something, you have to know a lot about it.
"It certainly has helped me working with technical teams. My background, I'm familiar when talking about technical things, and I feel like I know what the questions are I should be asking and I know what to look out for," she said. Service NL Minister Sarah Stoodley brought 13-day-old Alexander Jeffery George Stubley into the House of Assembly on Monday. - SaltWire Network fileI was in the U.K. working for a while. Just kind of normal everyday grind in a company. I looked around and realized that everyone else in the room — there must be six or eight of us in the room working together — everyone else had gone to University of Oxford or University of Cambridge, and I had gone to Memorial University.
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