Mr. Smith Goes to OttawaIn Mr Smith Goes to Ottawa, the author compares the 34th(1988 93) and the 35th (1993 97) Parliaments. The former, the secondconsecutive Conservative led majority government, could not appear moredifferent from the Liberal one which followed. Over two thirds of itsmembers were rookies. More significantly, over one third representedtwo new political parties the Bloc Quebecois and the Reformparty. Yet, for all this change, Docherty shows that the new