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Brent Rathgeber: Cabinet Ministers

Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber Dept: OTTAWA - A Conservative MP is sounding off against the expensive perks given to cabinet ministers, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Rathgeber reports he was in Grenfell, Sask., a town of around 1,000 people last month, and found that the champagne tastes of senior Tories were at the top of people's minds and conservative MP Brent Rathgeber stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Rathgeber is sounding off against the expensive perks given to cabinet ministers.THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Sean Kilpatrick And in a sharp, online rebuke of his caucus, Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber is airing a complaint other Tory MPs say they're also hearing about on the doorsteps this summer: that the government is wasting people's money. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.