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Liberal election loss could cost millions of dollars in severance and separation pay to ministerial exempt staffers

In December 2003, it cost $1.94-million in severance and separation pay to 55 PMO staffers once former prime minister Jean Chrétien left office and Prime Minister Martin stepped in.

It will be all over by Monday night on Jan. 23, but with the strong possibility that the Liberals could lose the federal election, hundreds of exempt Cabinet ministerial staffers will also lose their jobs, meaning the government will pay out millions of dollars in severance pay and separation pac...

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