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   >Any guess which party she belongs to?  And who gave her the senate   
   >appointment?   
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   >At this rate, if Harper is trying to wait out a list of Conservative   
   >scandals by hiding behind prorogues of government, we may not see our   
   >next House sitting until the next election in 2015.   
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   I doubt that.  An election would have to be held earlier.   
      
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   >The Canadian Press - October 1, 2013   
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   >Fifth senator lands in expenses controversy, denies improper claims   
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   >OTTAWA - One of the accusers has become an accused in the Senate   
   >expenses scandal.   
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   >But Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen insists she's been falsely accused of   
   >improperly claiming living expenses.   
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   >The Conservative senator — who is closely allied with Prime Minister   
   >Stephen Harper and who was instrumental in calling on the RCMP to   
   >investigate the allegedly invalid expense claims of four other senators   
   >— denies she wrongly claimed more than $4,000 in accommodation and meals   
   >at a time when she was not involved in any Senate business.   
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   >"I have reviewed these claims with the Senate finance administration and   
   >they have found nothing improper," Stewart Olsen said in a terse written   
   >statement Tuesday.   
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   >"I welcome the auditor general's review of all senators' expenses."   
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   >The statement followed a report in The Huffington Post Canada, which   
   >alleged that Stewart Olsen wrongly claimed daily living expenses from   
   >December 2010 to February 2011 — even though the Senate was not sitting   
   >for most of that time and her calendar showed no public business in   
   >Ottawa during that period.   
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   >The Huffington Post quotes Stewart Olsen as saying she shouldn't have   
   >claimed per diems for days when the Senate wasn't sitting and promising   
   >to repay the money if a mistake was made.   
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   >However, her subsequent statement made no mention of repayment or having   
   >erred. Stewart Olsen did not respond to a request for clarification.   
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   >Stewart Olsen was a key member of the Senate's internal economy   
   >committee, which sat in judgment on the dubious expense claims of four   
   >other senators — Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb.   
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   >She was one of three members of the steering committee which oversaw   
   >external audits into the quartet's expense claims and ultimately   
   >demanded repayment while recommending that the RCMP investigate.   
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   >Stewart Olsen and fellow Conservative Sen. David Tkachuk have also been   
   >accused of initially whitewashing a report on Duffy to essentially clear   
   >him of any deliberate wrongdoing.   
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   >They've denied those accusations but ultimately changed their tune on   
   >Duffy after it was revealed he'd accepted $90,000 from Harper's chief of   
   >staff, Nigel Wright, to reimburse the Senate for his invalid housing   
   >allowance claims. Wright resigned several days after news of the   
   >transaction leaked out.   
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   >Both New Democrats and Liberals called Tuesday for Stewart Olsen to be   
   >booted off the internal economy committee, at a minimum.   
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   >"How could she continue sitting there and look at these (invalid   
   >expenses) issues in the same Senate when she had been doing the same   
   >thing? It's unbelievable," said NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.   
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   >Liberal MP Marc Garneau said Stewart Olsen's credibility is "completely   
   >shot."   
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   >But Sen. Gerald Comeau, chair of the committee, said in an interview   
   >that he intends to first check with Senate finance officials to see if   
   >Stewart Olsen's expense claims were all valid. If so, he said there'd be   
   >no need to pursue the matter further.   
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   >There's nothing necessarily suspicious about claiming expenses on days   
   >when the Senate or its committees aren't sitting or when a senator has   
   >no public Senate business to attend to, Comeau said.   
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   >Senators often return to the capital to work in their Senate offices,   
   >consult with their staff, conduct research in the parliamentary library   
   >and so on, he noted.   
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   >"I've done it many times myself, actually going to Ottawa to do work   
   >which would be kind of impractical for me to do from my home (in Nova   
   >Scotia)."   
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   >A little bit of Wikipedia on her:   
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   >However, a fellow Conservative strategist, speaking anonymously to the   
   >Canadian Press in 2005, said that "Carolyn Stewart Olsen is an issue for   
   >a lot of people — her relationship with the leader and her inability to   
   >work well with people."   
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   >Editorialist Adam Radwanski suggested in his blog that she may   
   >"reinforce all the leader’s worst, most paranoid instincts."[9] In   
   >February 2006, after the departure of Harper's communications director   
   >William Stairs, the Toronto Star described Stewart-Olsen going to the   
   >"unusual lengths of holding down reporters' hands when they've tried to   
   >ask questions or shouting at journalists who don't abide by her rules   
   >for press dealings.   
      
   Next up all the CPC strategists.   
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