Pamela Wallin Confirms Having Paid Full Amount in Expense Scandal

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Senator Pamela Wallin has announced to have submitted personal cheques totaling $100,600.98 plus interest to the federal government in order to return her wrongly acquired expense claims as ordered by a Senate committee last month. Sen. Wallin was allowed only 30 days to return the aforesaid money by the Senate’s internal economy committee, which made the demand after reviewing an audit into her travel expenses by the independent accounting firm Deloitte. According to that, deadline would have been Monday, Sept. 16.

Furthermore, it was also confirmed later by the Senate on Friday that it has received the cheques, payable to the Receiver General, for $100,600.98 and $13,938.19. Out of which, the lesser amount was for interest calculated at the rate of prime plus one per cent, as the committee had recommended in its review last month. This payment was in addition to $38,369, which the Senator had previously repaid, before the Senate expenses scandal hit the headlines earlier this year.

Senator Wallin mentioned in a statement issued on Friday that she fundamentally disagrees with the methods employed by the auditors in finding her expenses were ineligible, but she has made the expense claims in “good faith.” It was elucidated that “I wish to make it clear. I was not treated fairly by the Deloitte review, which was not conducted in accordance with generally accepted accounting principle, nor have I been treated fairly by the Senate committee. Evidence that casts doubt on the correctness of the amounts owing was either ignored or disregarded during the review.”