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Roughly $53,000 spent for cabinet chiefs to attend January retreat, expense disclosures show

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen are currently both in need of new press secretaries.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Employment Minister Patty Hajdu, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen pictured at a ceremony at Rideau Hall for the Jan. 10 cabinet shuffle. It cost roughly $150,000 for ministers, chiefs of staff and PMO staff to attend the subsequent cabinet retreat in Calgary in late January. The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 15, 2017

It cost more than $53,000 for the various cabinet chiefs of staff to attend the Liberal government’s most recent retreat in Calgary in late January, as indicated by online travel and hospitality expense disclosures for the first quarter of the year. The most recent quarterly disclosure reports, w...

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