The Senate expense scandal remains front and centre in Ottawa today as the upper chamber resumes debate on motions to suspend Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau.
On Wednesday, Wallin told the upper chamber that her reputation has been left in tatters by personal and political vendettas involving confidantes of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Wallin accused fellow senators Carolyn Stewart Olsen and Marjory LeBreton of leaking information about her to the media. Wallin said they hoped she would resign, but she says her spirit won't be broken.
Wallin, Duffy and Brazeau have all fired back at a bid by Conservative senators to have the three suspended without pay and benefits for inappropriately claiming Senate expenses.
Harper mounted a vigorous defence in question period on Wednesday against explosive remarks made yesterday by Senator Mike Duffy in the ongoing scandal.
Duffy alleged, in a speech to the Senate on Tuesday, there was a Conservative scheme to have him removed from the upper chamber unless he went along with a plan to repay his Senate expenses, although he believed he had followed the rules.
Less than 24 hours after Duffy made those remarks, the prime minister denied Duffy's allegation that he was more concerned about the perception of Duffy's expenses in the media than whether he violated parliamentary rules because the expense rules were "inexplicable to our base."
Harper rebutted Duffy's version of events saying, "the issue is not a matter of perception … you can not claim an expense you did not incur. That is not right, that is not proper, and that will not be tolerated in this party."
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