I'm wondering if the Chief of Staff wasn't planning on stealing it back with a little bit of fancy "bookkeeping"!
Duffy is past expiry date- Harper should cut him loose.
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I'm wondering if the Chief of Staff wasn't planning on stealing it back with a little bit of fancy "bookkeeping"!
Auditors to deepen probe into Pamela Wallin’s Senate expenses - The Globe and Mail
The Senate committee examining Pamela Wallin’s travel expenses has asked independent auditors to widen the scope of their review to include another year’s worth of the Saskatchewan senator’s expense claims.
Ms. Wallin is under scrutiny for travel bills that were well above the average claimed by her fellow senators over the past several years. She is one of four members at the centre of a growing controversy over expense claims that is fueling calls for reform in the Red Chamber and recently prompted the Prime Minister’s top aide to resign.
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The Senate committee examining Pamela Wallin’s travel expenses has asked independent auditors to widen the scope of their review to include another year’s worth of the Saskatchewan senator’s expense claims.
Ms. Wallin is under scrutiny for travel bills that were well above the average claimed by her fellow senators over the past several years. She is one of four members at the centre of a growing controversy over expense claims that is fueling calls for reform in the Red Chamber and recently prompted the Prime Minister’s top aide to resign.
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And here I always thought Pamela Wallin was squeaky clean and beyond reproach and it turns out she's just another thief!
I understand that while the audit was ongoing she paid back funds?? Why I do not know- nor does the public.
But I get that feeling that criminal charges may be forthcoming. The RCMP will do a complete forensic audit. And if they feel that the scope should widen, who is going to say no. No one. Interference with a possible criminal investigation.
If there is a whiff of Political interference why as we know it always floats out as a leak.
And the Clowns in Govt will as always Fuk Up.
Senate expenses: Former top Mountie says RCMP controlled politically | Canadian Politics | Canada | News | National Post
OTTAWA — A former RCMP superintendent says he’s never seen the degree of political control over the Mounties that exists now, and says it “does not bode well” for an objective police investigation of the Senate expense scandal.
Gary Clement, a 30-year veteran of the force who spent more than half those years working in the national capital region, told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday that the thrust of the RCMP investigation will likely centre around Section 122 of the Criminal Code and breach of trust.
“From my read of the act and what’s been alleged through the media, I think they’ve got pretty strong grounds,” Clement said.
The Mounties are taking a preliminary look at the expenses of three senators, Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb.
Whether any of those answers will see the public light of day is another matter, said the former RCMP superintendent.
The Conservative government mandated in 2011 that all RCMP communications be cleared through the office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
“Having been at the RCMP for 30 years, and when I was, I was in the national capital region for the better part of 18 years dealing with all levels of investigations, yeah, I would suggest I don’t think I’ve seen — at least since my relationship with the RCMP started — I don’t think I’ve ever seen the type of control that’s been placed on the RCMP, which is a little bit disconcerting from a former member,” said Clement.
He said he knows the investigating officer involved in the Senate case has the “utmost credibility.”
“So if he’s allowed to — which I hope the commissioner (Bob Paulson) has directed — undertake an unfettered investigation, then I think the public will know,”" said Clement.
He quickly added a large caution: “Let’s be honest, the direction that Mr. Toews as a minister, everything’s got to go through him, in my mind does not bode well for objectivity.”
This is a good move by Harper. Let us hope is applies to the other Senators.
Mike Duffy will get chance to make expenses case in public view | Canadian Politics | Canada | News | National Post
OTTAWA — Sen. Mike Duffy will have the chance to make his case in full view of the public, as Conservative senators say they’ll open up the usually secretive committee reviewing his Senate expenses.
The Tories were expected to use their majority in the upper chamber Tuesday afternoon to have the Senate’s internal economy committee hold public meetings as it reviews Duffy’s audit of his Senate living expenses.
The committee has been under a cloud of suspicion and pressure to make the hearings open, a request Duffy made himself last week.
“We need answers,” Liberal Sen. Art Eggleton told reporters on Parliament Hill Tuesday.
The three-member executive of the internal economy committee met Tuesday morning. A meeting of the entire committee was expected later in the day.
Mike Duffy will get chance to make expenses case in public view | Canadian Politics | Canada | News | National Post
OTTAWA — Sen. Mike Duffy will have the chance to make his case in full view of the public, as Conservative senators say they’ll open up the usually secretive committee reviewing his Senate expenses.
The Tories were expected to use their majority in the upper chamber Tuesday afternoon to have the Senate’s internal economy committee hold public meetings as it reviews Duffy’s audit of his Senate living expenses.
The committee has been under a cloud of suspicion and pressure to make the hearings open, a request Duffy made himself last week.
“We need answers,” Liberal Sen. Art Eggleton told reporters on Parliament Hill Tuesday.
The three-member executive of the internal economy committee met Tuesday morning. A meeting of the entire committee was expected later in the day.
Well as the article states the wheels have come off a well oiled machine. But anyone with a whiff of sense could see it could not last.
Now it falls down to Harper to handle this- Auditor Gen to perform audit - expenses well defined and on line- held to the same standard as civil servants.
A hellish two weeks for government | Full Comment | National Post
Just a few things from the article.
In Ottawa the opposition parties are suddenly in a jam, unlike any they’ve encountered in seven-plus years of Harper government. With so many Conservative scandals on the front burner at one time, and a limited number of allotted questions in the House of Commons, how to deal with them all? It’s a logistical nightmare.
Set aside for a moment the Senate expense scandal, concerning the still-unfathomable $90,000 payment to former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy from former PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright. Never mind the simple weirdness of the fact that Wright had to be run down, on the hoof as it were, by an intrepid and apparently fit CTV reporter, Daniele Hamamdjian, and her cameraman, Jimmy MacDonald, during a 4 a.m. jog, before he, Wright, would take his first questions about the affair. Let’s take a glance at the rest of the pack.
First of course is robocalls, a pattern of gerrymandering first unearthed by my Postmedia colleagues Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher in February of last year. Last Thursday Federal Court judge Richard Mosley ruled that in the May 2, 2011 election, electoral fraud occurred in ridings nationwide, albeit not to a degree great enough to change outcomes.
Next is the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and its patronage-tainted hiring of Kevin MacAdam, a former staffer of Defence Minister Peter MacKay. Monday the Halifax Chronicle-Herald reported that a Public Service Commission draft report on the 2010 hiring was edited to delete a paragraph suggesting political interference. The edit was done at the behest of MacKay’s office, according to the account by the Chronicle-Herald‘s Paul McLeod.
Moving from patronage back to alleged fraud, one-time Stephen Harper appointee Arthur Porter is back in the news. Porter, whom the Harper government named chairman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee in 2010 and who resigned in 2011 following a National Post investigation into his dealings, was arrested in Panama this week and charged with fraud. As head of the SIRC, Porter had access to state secrets. Extradition proceedings are under way, the Post‘s Brian Hutchinson reports. Cue the Graham Greene references.
According to reporting by the Canadian Press, CSIS was aware of Delisle’s illicit activities for months before his arrest, but neglected to inform the RCMP. The Mounties first heard it from the FBI. Opposition leader Tom Mulcair pressed Public Safety Minister Vic Toews on this bit of outrageousness in the Commons Monday but, amid the din over Duff, it barely registered.
Now it falls down to Harper to handle this- Auditor Gen to perform audit - expenses well defined and on line- held to the same standard as civil servants.
A hellish two weeks for government | Full Comment | National Post
Just a few things from the article.
In Ottawa the opposition parties are suddenly in a jam, unlike any they’ve encountered in seven-plus years of Harper government. With so many Conservative scandals on the front burner at one time, and a limited number of allotted questions in the House of Commons, how to deal with them all? It’s a logistical nightmare.
Set aside for a moment the Senate expense scandal, concerning the still-unfathomable $90,000 payment to former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy from former PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright. Never mind the simple weirdness of the fact that Wright had to be run down, on the hoof as it were, by an intrepid and apparently fit CTV reporter, Daniele Hamamdjian, and her cameraman, Jimmy MacDonald, during a 4 a.m. jog, before he, Wright, would take his first questions about the affair. Let’s take a glance at the rest of the pack.
First of course is robocalls, a pattern of gerrymandering first unearthed by my Postmedia colleagues Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher in February of last year. Last Thursday Federal Court judge Richard Mosley ruled that in the May 2, 2011 election, electoral fraud occurred in ridings nationwide, albeit not to a degree great enough to change outcomes.
Next is the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and its patronage-tainted hiring of Kevin MacAdam, a former staffer of Defence Minister Peter MacKay. Monday the Halifax Chronicle-Herald reported that a Public Service Commission draft report on the 2010 hiring was edited to delete a paragraph suggesting political interference. The edit was done at the behest of MacKay’s office, according to the account by the Chronicle-Herald‘s Paul McLeod.
Moving from patronage back to alleged fraud, one-time Stephen Harper appointee Arthur Porter is back in the news. Porter, whom the Harper government named chairman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee in 2010 and who resigned in 2011 following a National Post investigation into his dealings, was arrested in Panama this week and charged with fraud. As head of the SIRC, Porter had access to state secrets. Extradition proceedings are under way, the Post‘s Brian Hutchinson reports. Cue the Graham Greene references.
According to reporting by the Canadian Press, CSIS was aware of Delisle’s illicit activities for months before his arrest, but neglected to inform the RCMP. The Mounties first heard it from the FBI. Opposition leader Tom Mulcair pressed Public Safety Minister Vic Toews on this bit of outrageousness in the Commons Monday but, amid the din over Duff, it barely registered.
