OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s Parliamentary Press Gallery denounced the Liberals’ “unprecedented” exclusion of Canadian media from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt on Sunday, while the government said it had no choice due to last minute travel.

In a statement late Tuesday, Parliamentary Press Gallery (PPG) President Mia Rabson said journalists accredited to cover Parliament were neither informed sufficiently in advance of, nor invited to join Carney’s trip to Egypt for the Middle East Peace Ceremony on Oct. 12 and 13.

“The Gallery is disappointed and dismayed at the exclusion of Canadian media from the event and expresses in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again,” Rabson said.

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime mi

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