Senate spending mess widens for Liberals, Conservatives – Ottawa Citizen
June 5, 2015
The Senate is in a renewed state of panic one day after the first bombshells from a much anticipated — and not yet public — report on Senate spending from auditor general Michael Ferguson dropped.
For the Conservatives, Friday arrives with questions about how a high-profile senator whom Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed to be a victims-rights advocate could soon be under investigation by the RCMP.
For Liberals who have cut ties with their brethren in the Senate, there are questions about the six party members making up the largest contingent of nine misspending senators about to have a date with the RCMP.
For the NDP, which calls for abolition of the Senate, the revelations will fuel the daily attacks they level against the Tories on the Senate scandal, hoping it turns voters away from Harper and the Conservatives as the parties ready for the October election.
