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While Stephen Harper showed up to take questions from MPs 65 per cent of the time, Mark Carney has been present for just 26.8 per cent of question periods in the House of Commons.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has missed so many question periods in the House of Commons that he hit a new milestone worth celebrating — or not — with a sweet treat.

Of late, goaded by the Tories, the media has made much of the prime minister’s poor attendance at question period — the worst-ever performance by any prime minister ever, at just under 30 per cent.

A cake covered in vanilla icing and rainbow sprinkles became the unlikely centrepiece of Ottawa’s latest accountability fight. Conservative MPs ...