Not yet clear if MPs will pay steeper price for holiday travel abroad, say politicos, but damage could come at polls

'If anybody’s going to cut them some slack, I think it would be me, and I have no room for any slack,' says former veteran NDP MP David Christopherson, of the growing list of public officials who travelled overseas in defiance of public health recommendations over the holiday break.
NDP NP Niki Ashton, pictured at top left in March 2017, Liberal MP Kamal Khera, pictured at right, and Conservative MP David Sweet, pictured at bottom left in September 2020, are part of a list of MPs who travelled abroad over the holidays.
It is too early to say if some politicians caught travelling abroad over the holidays will face long-term consequences, say some Hill observers, as timing will play a big role in determining if they lose their jobs in the next vote.

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