Seated in the swanky restaurant on the sixth floor of the Centre Block building on Parliament Hill, Ruth Ellen Brosseau scans the lunchtime crowd. The first-term member of Parliament from Quebec seems to have a friendly rapport with everyone she encounters — cabinet ministers, security guards, reporters — though she has gently grilled our bow-tied waiter about why we’ve been seated near the centre of the restaurant, rather than in the official New Democrat area way in the back. He shrugs demurely and fills our glasses with ice water. Stymied, Brosseau cranes her neck to see if she can detect what’s going on in Ottawa’s most exclusive dining room, perhaps evidence of alliances forming or feuds brewing.
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