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This just in: Liberals hiring political staffers for ministers’ regional offices

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured holding the 2017 federal budget document with Finance Minister Bill Morneau on budget day on the Hill, March 22. The government allocated an additional $3-million in annual funding to hire new political staff for ministers' regional offices in the last budget.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

April 17, 2017

The Liberal government has hired a number of political staffers to work in regional ministers' offices across the country in recent months, including five new regional managers, and there are plans to hire more. Previously, under the Harper Conservative government various cabinet ministers were a...

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