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OTTAWA — Canada’s federal opposition parties are calling out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for using taxpayer dollars to pay for two nannies helping to care for his three young children.

During the election campaign, Trudeau attacked the Conservative government for handing out tax cuts and benefits, including a new universal child care benefit, to Canada’s wealthiest families — including his own.

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As a result, said interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, he ought to be footing his own child care bills.

“I just think he should pay for it himself,” Ambrose said in an interview.

“It’s not a reflection of their child care choice — every family has a different makeup, every family has to make decisions about their child care — but I think … Canadians would expect them to just pay for their own nanny out of their own pocket.”

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New Democrat MP Sheila Malcolmson, the party’s status of women critic, called out the prime minister for paying his nannies so little.