Senator Pamela Wallin next to resign.
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You wish. You should try reading the article even if it is another rather slanted piece from the enemy of good government.
The news chick from CTV is a scammer, She hasn't been to Wadena SK in ages but fraudulently claimed she did.
Would the Union people over at Globular News call it fraud too?
Has Union CTV reported it as fraud?
They stole your money and my money you get mad at CBC because they did their jobs? That makes perfect sense.
Like when CBC cost "honest pete"the election in Labrador because they portrayed him in a negative light ? It looks to me like the CBC is the real body of sober second thought,since they shone the light on harper inc and their nefarious schemes.
i want this people prosecuted or persecuted i don't care which....every time I read another article it make me burn
I love the little poll on the bottom, problem is it didn't have the choice I would most prefer which involves a more permanent solution.
I love the little poll on the bottom, problem is it didn't have the choice I would most prefer which involves a more permanent solution.
Senators don't really resign do they.. the sit as independents... their $132K salaries.. living and transportation stipends.. and their pensions (about equal to their salaries over time).. unmolested. It's such an empty gesture it makes me want to toss. It's just a swamp over there in the Senate... political hacks as pond scum.. it's only outdone in arrogance, incompetence and futility by the SCOC. Catch buckets for political patronage.
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Could dissolve both houses, as far as I'm concerned.
And then what do you suggest? Hire a king???
So she gets free flights yet is hosing taxpayers for 'flight' expenses?
I smell a double dipper Stevie.............
As a member of the board of directors for Porter Airlines, Inc., Wallin receives an additional perk: free flights for nonbusiness activities.
“Independent board members are eligible for complimentary leisure travel.
Travel associated with other business interests is not included in this policy,” Porter Airlines spokesman Brad Cicero wrote in an email this week, in which he also noted board members are reimbursed for expenses related to Porter business.
Senate quarterly expense reports for the period from Sept. 1, 2010, to Feb. 28 this year show Wallin claimed just $30,238 for “regular” travel between Ottawa and Saskatchewan, while billing $321,842 for “other” travel to elsewhere in Canada and around the world.
Senate expense scandal: Committee to question Deloitte auditors | Toronto Star
I smell a double dipper Stevie.............
As a member of the board of directors for Porter Airlines, Inc., Wallin receives an additional perk: free flights for nonbusiness activities.
“Independent board members are eligible for complimentary leisure travel.
Travel associated with other business interests is not included in this policy,” Porter Airlines spokesman Brad Cicero wrote in an email this week, in which he also noted board members are reimbursed for expenses related to Porter business.
Senate quarterly expense reports for the period from Sept. 1, 2010, to Feb. 28 this year show Wallin claimed just $30,238 for “regular” travel between Ottawa and Saskatchewan, while billing $321,842 for “other” travel to elsewhere in Canada and around the world.
Senate expense scandal: Committee to question Deloitte auditors | Toronto Star
yeah give or take a day here or there... almost 1500.00 PER DAY plus expenses to blow wind up our bums.
I cannot express how deeply disappointed I am in Pamela Wallin. As a reporter and broadcaster I thought she was pretty good, I'd have thought she had some standards. You just have to look at Mike Duffy to think "pig at the trough" but I really expected better of Ms. Wallin. Perhaps expecting good ethical standards from politicians just dooms me to perpetual disappointment. But at least there's still Ralph Goodale, who so far at least certainly appears to be an upright and honest man.
She may have changed because she has been away from her prairie roots too long.
She will never leave this gravy train..............
It would seem that the good Senator from somewhere, Pamela Wallin, is on the road so much that she has been denied health coverage in both Ontario and Saskatchewan, at least according to The Globe and Mail. This conflicts with a report in The Waterloo Record, which states that she has an Ontario health card, which is not necessarily such good news, given her senatorial claim of being a Sasatchewan resident.
What is a wily woman from Wadena (originally) to do? But then again, the question of health coverage may be the least of her problems.
It would seem that the good Senator from somewhere, Pamela Wallin, is on the road so much that she has been denied health coverage in both Ontario and Saskatchewan, at least according to The Globe and Mail. This conflicts with a report in The Waterloo Record, which states that she has an Ontario health card, which is not necessarily such good news, given her senatorial claim of being a Sasatchewan resident.
What is a wily woman from Wadena (originally) to do? But then again, the question of health coverage may be the least of her problems.
After months of speculation and rumours, Pamela Wallin and a small group of her Senate colleagues discover Monday what auditors have unearthed during months spent poring through her travel expenses of the last three years.
The following day, Tuesday, Wallin finds out her fate as the Senate’s internal economy committee reaches conclusions and decides on a course of action, including the possibility of sending her audit to the RCMP for a further look.
But beyond the future of the Saskatchewan senator herself, the Wallin affair may carry wider implications for the upper chamber and its members, challenging what sort of work actually constitutes Senate business. While Wallin has come under fire for her travel bills, there has also been scrutiny of what she does when she travels, and the questions don’t simply revolve around her work with corporate boards. If the audit, or the Senate committee, finds some of her other work doesn’t meet a sometimes nebulous definition of Senate business, other members of the red chamber may end up scrutinizing their own activities and advocacy roles.
First, the Wallin audit. The study of her three-year travel bill of more than $360,000 may be damaging to the former Conservative senator as auditors detail expenses the Senate paid that possibly should have been charged to one of the corporate boards Wallin served on. They’ll also go through how much in additional costs she may have wracked up by staying overnight in Toronto on her way to Saskatchewan, which she represents in the Senate. The outside auditors from Deloitte are also likely to detail trips for which Wallin has repaid the Senate, and possibly identify other travel claims that may not have wholly been for Senate business in the eyes of the auditors.
Wallin has travelled extensively over the last three years, across Canada and to the United States. Her trips have taken her to Calgary, Halifax, Toronto, Afghanistan, Whitehorse, Regina, Edmonton, New York City and Washington, among other locations identified by Postmedia News through her newsletters, social media and legacy media sources. (See our list, below.)
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Sen. Pamela Wallin’s travel expenses audit may hold wider implications for red chamber
The following day, Tuesday, Wallin finds out her fate as the Senate’s internal economy committee reaches conclusions and decides on a course of action, including the possibility of sending her audit to the RCMP for a further look.
But beyond the future of the Saskatchewan senator herself, the Wallin affair may carry wider implications for the upper chamber and its members, challenging what sort of work actually constitutes Senate business. While Wallin has come under fire for her travel bills, there has also been scrutiny of what she does when she travels, and the questions don’t simply revolve around her work with corporate boards. If the audit, or the Senate committee, finds some of her other work doesn’t meet a sometimes nebulous definition of Senate business, other members of the red chamber may end up scrutinizing their own activities and advocacy roles.
First, the Wallin audit. The study of her three-year travel bill of more than $360,000 may be damaging to the former Conservative senator as auditors detail expenses the Senate paid that possibly should have been charged to one of the corporate boards Wallin served on. They’ll also go through how much in additional costs she may have wracked up by staying overnight in Toronto on her way to Saskatchewan, which she represents in the Senate. The outside auditors from Deloitte are also likely to detail trips for which Wallin has repaid the Senate, and possibly identify other travel claims that may not have wholly been for Senate business in the eyes of the auditors.
Wallin has travelled extensively over the last three years, across Canada and to the United States. Her trips have taken her to Calgary, Halifax, Toronto, Afghanistan, Whitehorse, Regina, Edmonton, New York City and Washington, among other locations identified by Postmedia News through her newsletters, social media and legacy media sources. (See our list, below.)
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Sen. Pamela Wallin’s travel expenses audit may hold wider implications for red chamber