MPs slash GG’s, PCO’s budget by 10%, but boost their own by 10%

But MPs say more money is needed to keep up to mounting constituency demands

In a sensational move, MPs last week moved to cut the Governor General's and the PCO's budgets by 10 per cent each, after they quietly gave themselves a $23,500 boost -- or a 10 per cent increase -- to their operating budgets last month retroactive to the last election. But some MPs are already c...

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