MPs, Senators spend more than a quarter million dollars on trips abroad
Parliamentarians tabled documents reporting $277,160 they spent on 15 junkets abroad. The trips by members of 12 Parliamentary exchange associations, which have a total budget of $4.4-million annually, received little attention in the House and the Senate, even as QP was seized with opposition demands for more information about the government's spending cuts.
PARLIAMENT HILL—As the government and opposition parties tangled over the past three weeks about massive spending cuts the Conservatives are planning, MPs and Senators quietly tabled documents reporting $277,160 they spent on 15 junkets abroad, including $19,154 for a six-day trip to Brazil...
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