With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Nov. 20 cabinet shuffle set as the only fast-approaching checkpoint for the 43rd Parliament, new MPs are cramming as if the House could return any minute.

Two weeks since election day, top of the list for the new MPs of the Liberals, Conservatives and Greens that spoke with iPolitics spoke is frantically setting up their constituency offices, as well as getting a crash course guide to their new life.

Richard Bragdon, the new Conservative MP that will be representing the riding of Tobique-Mactaquac in New Brunswick, was among the first group of new House members to head to Ottawa last week for MP school, as the Members’ Orientation Program is commonly referred to.

Bragdon, like everyone that’s newly-elected at the federal level, was invited to the program that in two days buzzes through MPs’ various roles and responsibilities, as well as the resources available to them like the Parliamentary Budget Officer and Library of Parliament.

Despite the general feel for the Hill that he’s developed as a national council member for the Conservative Party and the nearly 25 years of experience in public facing roles, Bragdon says his new duty is like “a whole new level.”

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Speaking to iPolitics after his orientation experience, Bragdon says for him it was important to be open to learning from the various House staff and MPs who have come before him.

“You want to be able to utilize (the supports available) as much as possible so we can hit the ground running to make sure we’re representing our constituents in the best way we can,” Bragdon said.

Bragdon shared the sentiment of newly-elected Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk of wanting to be assigned a parliamentary role that closely relates to the issues facing their constituents.

For Bragdon, that includes assignments related to agricultural issues, natural resource development, senior issues and Indigenous affairs.

“Those are all areas that matter in my region so obviously those will be things I’ll certainly want to be as involved in and as helpful as I can be,” Bragdon said.

For Kusmierczyk, who is returning to work in the city where he once lived as a university student, he comes to the nation’s capital hoping to push for protection of automobile and manufacturing jobs in his riding of Windsor–Tecumseh, as well as wanting to advocate for action on climate change and affordability, as per the most up-front portions of his Liberal Party’s platform.

Kusmierczyk spoke to iPolitics over the phone late last week, just after he had cleared out his belongings from the job he’ll be leaving at WEtech Alliance, which is one of the partially publicly-funded Regional Innovation Centres that works to support Ontario tech startups. He’s also going to be leaving his post as a city councillor in Windsor. Kusmierczyk said he hopes to use skills drawn from both of his most recent experiences in his new role as a federal representative.

“Folks want things done, so I’ll have a chance to lean on six years of experience of working with partners and different stakeholders and community organizations and that’s how you got things done at the local level, you had to build partnerships,” Kusmierczyk said.

And while he said he’d like committee appointments related to tech or innovation, Kusmierczyk says he’ll “embrace” what opportunities are given to him.

As for his MP school experience, the new Liberal MP said what most impressed him was the accompanying program for spouses of new MPs. Kusmierczyk said the House of Commons “knocked it out of the park” with its introductory programming that his wife, who he said had only visited Ottawa once previously, and others were offered to participate in.

Newly-elected Green Party MP Jenica Atwin was also accompanied to MP school by her husband, but unlike Kusmierczyk does not have past familiarity with Ottawa, having said she only visited the city once while in passing on the way to Niagara Falls.

Because the Greens don’t meet the threshold of official party status (parties must have 12 members) Atwin won’t be appointed to committees. Instead, Atwin will be focused on leveraging the powers of the House afforded to members’ of non-officially-recognized parties, which is something she said the three-MP caucus of the Greens discussed on Monday at their first formal caucus meeting.

She also said she’ll be pushing forward on advocating for national bans on the controversial pesticide-ingredient glyphosate, the practice of fracking and on a more local level, looking to support Frederiction’s Clinic 554, which is an abortion and LGBTQ specialty clinic that announced it would be closing last month.

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“That’s been something we’ve really already discussed: How do we continue to show our support and push really hard for 554 – so that would be a big one for me,” Atwin said.

Bragdon, Atwin and Kusmierczyk all shared a quote in describing their anticipation for their new role, in that they each want to hit “the ground running.”

“Most MPs that I talk to just want to get going, they want to roll up their sleeves and they want to go,” Kusmierczyk said.