The House is collecting. The NDP owes $2.7 million for misspending taxpayers' money.
Dan Harris, a former member of the House of Commons representing Scarborough Southwest under the banner of the New Democratic Party, is no longer going to be required to repay over $140,000 to the House of Commons. The controversy centres around the NDP's use of their parliamentary office budgets to fund partisan satellite offices in Toronto and Québec.
The House administration reconsidered its position after Mr. Harris provided additional documentation supporting his assertion that one of his employees, who the House had deemed a partisan staffer, had in fact been working almost exclusively on non-partisan parliamentary and constituency-related duties, with the exception of a dozen or so days working at the just-established NDP satellite office in Toronto.
The Board of Internal Economy, the governing board of the House of Commons, ruled in early 2015 that the New Democratic Party had misspent over $2.7 million of parliamentary funds, and ordered the repayment of the funds. That decision is being challenged in Federal Court.
For MPs who were re-elected, their offices continue to owe the House for the misspent funds. The office of The Honourable Thomas Mulcair PC, MP, the Leader of the NDP, owes the House over $400,000. For those members who were not re-elected, they are now on the hook for the debts.
Source: Ex-MP Dan Harris 'exonerated' in NDP satellite office controversy (CBC News)