MP trips to U.S. more than triple in first quarter of 2017-18

MP spending overall is up about six per cent from $28.6-million in the first quarter of 2016-17 to about $30.5-million in the same period in 2017-18. Calgary Conservative MP Ron Liepert spent the most so far this fiscal year.

Conservative MP Randy Hoback, talking NAFTA right with his party's then-trade critic Gerry Ritz in August, was one of the 17 MPs who travelled to Washington and New York in the first three months of the 2017-18 fiscal year. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY EMILY HAWS

October 11, 2017

With NAFTA renegotiations on the horizon, Members of Parliament took more than three times the number of trips to Washington and New York from April 1 to June 30 than the same period the year prior. In the first quarter of the 2017-18 fiscal year, which runs April 1 ...

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