Trudeau cabinet ministers expensed $1,304 per month for second residence in Ottawa

Claims varied dramatically between members of the Trudeau cabinet.

The average housing expenses claimed by Liberal cabinet ministers won't get them anything fancy in Ottawa's downtown. Maryam Monsef and Harjit Sajjan topped the list of spenders between last year's election and the beginning of October, while Chrystia Freeland spent the least of those outside of Ottawa. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

December 21, 2016

OTTAWA—The latest MP expense reports are in, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet ministers have fairly modest tastes in real estate. Liberal ministers expensed an average of $1,304 per month for the cost of maintaining...

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