OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s two-day cabinet retreat cost thousands more than similar retreats organized by his predecessor, new documents revealed.

According to a response to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP Kerry Diotte, the pre-session cabinet confab — held this year at the Pan Pacific Toronto in York Mills — cost taxpayers $532,372.24.

That’s more than two recent cabinet retreats organized by former prime minister Justin Trudeau — his 2023 retreat in Charlottetown, P.E.I., cost $485,196, while the one held in 2022 in Vancouver cost $471,070.

“If you’re spending thousands of dollars more than Trudeau on meetings, you’re spending too much money,” said Franco Terrazzano, the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

“It’s going to be har

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