While the Mike Duffy trial drags on, Canada’s Auditor General has released its audit into the Senate’s expense claims.
“We completed 116 individual baseline audits examining every expense incurred by 116 individual senators and former senators over a two year period.” Auditor General Michael Ferguson “This involved eaming over 80 thousand expense items.”
“We found that the oversight, accountability, and transparency around the expenses of senators were quite simply not enough.”
The report called for “transformational change in the way expenses are claimed” and changing or adding rules was not enough.
Ferguson recommended 9 senators have their files forwarded to the RCMP for further investigation. Of the 9, 7 have already retired including the lone BC senator on the list; Gerry St Germain.
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