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Originally Posted by timun
Beyond that, the specialized knowledge and experience required is mostly "how to 'win' debates", "knowing whose palms you should grease", "how to cultivate a voting base, and how to 'score points' to keep that base happy." It has very little to do with knowing how to govern, making difficult decisions in the best interests of the citizens of the country, etc. It barely has anything to do with how to write policy and law, which really ought to be the very foundation of what a politician does.
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Those are fair points, but it does also entail knowing how to work within the system on Parliament hill to get the sausage made - i.e., getting legislation through the process and enacted. Which is, fundamentally, a big part of what they're there to do. The actual drafting of the legislation is not really a thing that MPs are there to do.