House committee travel grounded as some Liberal chairs blame Conservatives

Only 11 out of 60 budgeted committee trips have gone ahead since the start of the current Parliament.

Liberal MP Ken McDonald, left, Conservative MP Kelly McCauley, and Liberal MPs René Arseneault, Lena Metlege Diab, and Fayçal El-Khoury are chairs of House committees and a subcommittee that have had travel plans stalled by lack of House consent. Photograph courtesy of X and Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

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BY NEIL MOSS

December 13, 2023

Less than a dozen House committee trips have taken place since the start of the current Parliament, and a handful of Liberal committee chairs are placing the blame on Conservative discord.

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