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On Monday, staffers in the offices of Liberal MPs across the country started tracking their bosses’ travel and hospitality expenses, preparing to post them online this time next month.

For the first time, voters will be able to see how much their representatives spend on each plane trip, taxi ride and dinner.

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But voters in ridings represented by MPs from other parties will continue to be in the dark.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday that this will be the “first step of what I hope will be a cascade of transparency and openness as the other parties try to outdo each other. I would love to see a competition in this, to try and see which party can truly be most transparent to Canadians because right now, the bar is set so low that I’m happy to raise the bar to this level.”

The other parties said Tuesday they will not be joining the competition.

Government House Leader Peter Van Loan was not available for interviews, but his office sent out a release promising “openness, transparency and accountability.”