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OTTAWA–The RCMP has obtained documents from the Senate as part of their examination into whether a full investigation is warranted into the ongoing travel and housing expense scandal that has engulfed senators Patrick Brazeau, Mike Duffy and Mac Harb.
Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella said Thursday that the RCMP’s Sensitive and Internal Investigations unit had requested documents related to the Senate’s policy on housing and travel expenses.
Brazeau and Harb have already faced a demand to pay back money they claimed through inappropriate expense claims.
“I wish to inform senators that we have received a request from the sensitive and international investigative unit of the RCMP, national division, for copies of our policy instruments relating to living expenses and travel policy for the purposes of their examination of senators Brazeau, Harb and Duffy,” said Kinsella.
Duffy is getting the most attention over a cheque given to him by Nigel Wright, to pay off the more than $90,000 he owed in bad expense claims. Wright was Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff at the time. He has since resigned over the weekend despite Harper saying he had faith in Wright.
Brazeau has been ordered to pay back nearly $48,000 and Harb, $51,000.
Both have said they will fight paying the money back.
Below is the letter from the RCMP and the Senate’s response:
Keep digging until all the rot is exposed, right from the top down.