Hamilton MP speaks of family torn apart by alcoholism, mental illness

Monday, June 30, 2014 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

NDP MP Wayne Marston is acutely aware that MPs bring their own experiences to Parliament Hill, those key events that shape who they are. For Marston, that includes childhood poverty, his father’s alcohol abuse, his mother's mental illness and his sister's strangulation when he was just two.

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