HOT MIC: Carney says MPs are "just useful for votes"
In a hot mic moment on Parliament Hill Monday, Carney was caught telling Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi that MPs are "just useful for votes."
Prime Minister Mark Carney may have just said the quiet part out loud.
In a hot mic moment on Parliament Hill Monday, Carney was caught telling Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković that MPs are “just useful for votes”, a remark that landed as critics accuse him of treating Parliament as little more than a political inconvenience.
This follows Opposition criticism over his repeated absences from Question Period despite being in the national capital region dozens of times.
A Global News analysis found Prime Minister Mark Carney attended just 33 of the first 123 Question Periods (26.8%), compared with 41.5 per cent for Justin Trudeau and 65 per cent for Stephen Harper.
“You just have MPs and they’re useful for votes… same with cabinet members,” Carney said Monday on Parliament Hill.
