Expanded Cabinet boosts spending and office budgets by $4.7-million

Cabinet ministers will have to 'mind their dimes and pennies' when managing their departments: Strahl.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's expanded Cabinet of 38 will cost an estimated extra $4.7-million annually in ministers' salaries, office budgets and staffer salaries, according to the Treasury Board's most recent guidelines.

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