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Officials are expected to release the details into Senator Pamela Wallin’s Senate expenses audit publicly today, which will also include a Senate committee’s report summarizing its recommended course of action in light of the findings. In a press appearance on Monday, Wallin vowed to pay back every dollar she is asked to by the Senate, with interest, though at the same time she called audit process as “fundamentally flawed and unfair.”
The Senate’s internal economy, budgets and administration committee is scheduled to meet up at 9 a.m. ET, when it will be briefed on the subcommittee’s report on Wallin audit. Consequently, the internal economy committee will attempt to agree on which recommendations to put in the report, while senators will be allowed to make suggestions. Chair of the committee, Senator Gerard Comeau, mentioned in a statement on Monday that “all options are on the table at this point.” He added that “the RCMP can see the report, it will be public, and the RCMP if it wishes to … can look at it and make a determination themselves.”
On the other hand, Wallin complained that the auditors are retroactively applying Senate travel rules that were changed in 2012. She mentioned in a brief statement that “the basis for this latter decision is apparently some arbitrary and undefined sense of what constitutes ‘Senate business’ or ‘common Senate practice’ and — by their own admission — no inquiries were made of other senators as to their definition or views on the subject.”
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