MPs say House cuts could mean cuts to their office staff

NDP MP Pat Martin says, ‘I don’t care about my pension, I don’t care about my wage freeze but you should not have touched MPs’ office budgets.’

MPs say they’re worried and upset that their staff, and therefore their ability to serve constituents, may have to be cut in the wake of $2-million in cuts to their office budgets, announced last week by the Commons Board of Internal Economy.

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