Senate scandal: Mac Harb resigns

[Locutus]

Former Liberal senator Mac Harb has called it quits and cut a $180,000-cheque to cover the rest of a $230,000 debt to the public purse



OTTAWA—Former Liberal Senator Mac Harb has called it quits, paid his $230,000 debt to the public purse, but may collect an annual pension of $123,000 for the rest of his life.

Harb is one of four senators whose expense claims are under review by the RCMP. That review will continue, but Harb said he was done fighting the Senate, now that the auditor general will audit everyone’s claims.

On Monday afternoon, declaring it was “never about the money,” Harb cut a $180,000 cheque to cover the amount outstanding from the $230,000 a Senate committee said he owed.

He submitted a letter to Gov. Gen. David Johnston announcing his intention to retire, effective immediately.


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[SLM]

Good. Although he now moves on to the gold-plated pension. So yeah, he's really going to be hurting after repaying that $180,000.

 

[captain morgan]

Harper's to blame.. No doubt about it

 

[Nuggler]

Mac, the only Lesbion in the senator, re sighns..............ah fukk, we are hard on them immigdrants and so on. poor ol mac. or macette. wheeterfer

startin to storm here..................owwww, big litening strike................holy stuff ................eh.

ooops, mas'cs a Lebonanese, noe a lesbion. sorry mc.a........

frdom Lebanon......................that's theone. :canada:

 

[hunboldt]

[The Liberal party of Canada has now completed its purification...

 

[damngrumpy]

No Harper is not to blame for this one but for Duffy and Wallen he is to blame he
personally appointed them. What is worse is the Prime Minister stated things
would be different, when his government took over. Not only that he tried to do
his best to cover the whole thing up saying last winter her expenses didn't look
out of line. Perception is reality not reality itself.

 

[captain morgan]

So.. Who is to blame for Harb?

 

[SLM]

So.. Who is to blame for Harb?

Harb is. And Duffy is to blame for Duffy, Wallen is to blame for Wallen. These are grown adults, they own their behaviour. Pretty ****ty employees if you ask me, we deserve better staff than this to look after our affairs. We're worth it.

Just a general blame is to be assigned to probably most, if not all, politicians because I'm sure they're doing something they haven't been caught for.....yet.

 

[Goober]

So.. Who is to blame for Harb?

Every PM that let the Senate and MP's spend taxpayer dollars without audit, clear rules and definitive punishments up to and including removal for Office were & are to blame.

 

[captain morgan]

Harb is. And Duffy is to blame for Duffy, Wallen is to blame for Wallen. These are grown adults, they own their behaviour. Pretty ****ty employees if you ask me, we deserve better staff than this to look after our affairs. We're worth it.

Just a general blame is to be assigned to probably most, if not all, politicians because I'm sure they're doing something they haven't been caught for.....yet.

Every PM that let the Senate and MP's spend taxpayer dollars without audit, clear rules and definitive punishments up to and including removal for Office were & are to blame.

I was just curious as the media has assessed blame on the recent scandals... I suppose that I'll just have to wait patiently for the CBC to dispatch their crack team and execute the investigation

 

[Goober]

I was just curious as the media has assessed blame on the recent scandals... I suppose that I'll just have to wait patiently for the CBC to dispatch their crack team and execute the investigation

Nope- His resignation does not halt the RCMP investigation.

 

[captain morgan]

I'm waiting on the CBC

 

[Goober]

I'm waiting on the CBC

Should the last 2 posts be in magenta?

 

[SLM]

I was just curious as the media has assessed blame on the recent scandals... I suppose that I'll just have to wait patiently for the CBC to dispatch their crack team and execute the investigation

I don't give a **** who the media blames....I make up my own mind.

And these people are still pissing me off. Senators, politicians and their "entitlements". They owe, every single one of them owes it to the people of Canada to make sure their behaviour is beyond reproach, it's supposed to be a position of high trust and authority. Yet they seem to be doing a rather piss poor job of that.

Should the last 2 posts be in magenta?

Neon magenta.

 

[tay]

'Drunk with entitlement and power'


"It's hard to be a place of sober second thought when you are drunk with entitlement and power"


Mulcair said the Liberals, when they were in power, and now the Conservatives have fostered a culture of entitlement when it comes to their Senate appointments, and the NDP is the only party that can fix Ottawa.


The NDP has long called for the Senate to be scrapped, and Mulcair said Canadians are now catching on to that idea and it's time to abolish it "once and for all."

"Unelected party hacks have no place writing or rewriting the laws of this country. It's as simple as that," he said.

Mulcair said he will consult with Canadians and work with the provinces and territories to get the upper chamber abolished.



"Canadians deserve better," he said


NDP determined to abolish Senate, Mulcair says - Politics - CBC News




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