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Prime Minister Mark Carney spent at least $300,000 on in-flight catering during his travels since taking office last March, plus at least another $472,000 when he got where he was going, records from Global Affairs Canada show.
The data comes in response to a question posed in October by Philip Lawrence, the Conservative member of Parliament from the Northumberland—Clarke riding in Ontario, east of Toronto. National Post has reached out to him for comment.
Lawrence asked: “With regard to the Prime Minister’s international travel from March 14, 2025, to the present: (a) what is the total expenditure on hotel accommodations for the Prime Minister and his entourage, broken down by trip and fiscal year; (b) what is the total cost of in-flight catering for the Prime Minister’s flights, broken down by trip and fiscal year; and (c) what are the names and addresses of the hotels where the Prime Minister has stayed, broken down by trip?”
Global Affairs listed accommodation costs for a half dozen trips between March and June last year. They included $39,415.12 in Paris, $36,288.10 in London, $48,358.50 in Washington DC, $133,372.60 in Rome/Vatican City, $141,069.33 in The Hague, and $73,789.64 in Brussels, for a total of $472,293.29.
It added that the names and addresses of the hotels where the prime minister stayed cannot be disclosed, for security reasons. In also noted that it could not disclose specific details as to the size of his entourage, which might reveal how many security personnel were assigned to protect him.
Since June, Carney has made an additional 15 international trips through the end of 2025, and four more this year to date, to Paris, Beijing, Doha, and Davos, Switzerland.
Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney answered a House of Commons question about grocery inflation by replying that the whole issue was the fault of the Conservatives.
According to Carney, the food prices were rising because of “the fall in the Canadian dollar caused by the obstructionism of the members opposite before this government came into place.”
It’s certainly nothing new in Canadian politics for an incumbent government to reflexively blame a perceived failure on the actions of the opposition. But the rhetoric usually peters out after a decade of said opposition party having been out of power.
Nevertheless, in the 46th Parliament, it’s not uncommon for the Carney government to attribute national failure to Conservative influence.
Who has been in power for the past ten years?
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