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Conservative members of Parliament topped the list of those with the best attendance for votes in the House of Commons in 2014, while some Independent and former Bloc Québécois MPs were absent the most.

Former New Democrat and now-Independent MP Sana Hassainia – who quit the NDP caucus in August over what she said was the party’s excessively pro-Israel position and its demands to toe the party line – had the worst voting attendance record by far, showing up for 16 of 269 votes (six per cent) in 2014.

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Hassainia has young children and her repeated absence from the Commons was a frustration for the NDP, which says it tried to accommodate the MP’s need to be with them.

In an interview Monday, Hassainia said she was often in the Commons doing her job but would leave before many of the votes, held in late afternoon and evening, because she didn’t always have child care and wanted to spend time with her two youngsters.