{"id":662851,"date":"2026-05-11T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:21:12","slug":"mps-senators-to-reduce-u-s-exchange-travel-amid-trade-negotiations-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662851\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs, senators to reduce U.S. exchange travel amid trade negotiations – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\tBy Dylan Robertson<\/p>\n

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MPs and senators are set to drastically reduce interparliamentary exchanges with the U.S. Senate and Congress, despite multi-party efforts to save a crucial trade deal with the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Parliamentary funding for intergovernmental legislative exchanges has been flat for years, yet fees have been rising for participation in interparliamentary groups such as those linked to the Commonwealth and NATO.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday Conservative Whip Chris Warkentin told a group of MPs who manage House of Commons expenses that the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group is facing a 40 per cent funding cut, while others are seeing increases.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey LeBlanc, the House deputy clerk for procedural matters, did not confirm that number but said rising membership and conference fees are leading several groups to reduce travel.<\/p>\n

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The Joint Interparliamentary Council, a committee of MPs and senators, made decisions at a closed-door meeting last month on each group\u2019s budget but the minutes of those decisions won\u2019t be made public for weeks.<\/p>\n

In March, the council asked both houses to increase funding and proposed allowing MPs and senators to dip into their individual travel budgets for U.S. trips to instead undertake interparliamentary work.<\/p>\n

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