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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   Another Harper Conservative rat scurries for cover before the RCMP can   
   lay charges.  'Another expected this week".  Any bets it's going to be   
   another Harper appointee?  I just hope this investigation proceeds   
   slowly . . .  up until the 2015 election.   
      
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   Postmedia News - December 4, 2013   
      
      
   Braley quits Senate, likely prompted by scandal   
      
   Tory officially provides no reason for sudden departure   
      
      
   A Conservative senator from Ontario who owns two CFL teams, including   
   the B.C. Lions, has retired early from the upper chamber - a move that   
   may be a harbinger of things to come.   
      
   David Braley provided no reason for his departure, which was effective   
   Nov. 30. The 72-year-old wasn't scheduled to retire until 2016.   
      
   But Braley was apparently fed up with the Senate scandal, telling a   
   hometown newspaper in September it had tainted anyone who sits in the   
   red chamber.   
      
   A longtime businessman from Hamilton, Ont., Braley told the Hamilton   
   Community News that his wife had asked him to consider retiring early.   
   He also said in the interview that the actions of senators Mike Duffy,   
   Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin, as well as of former Liberal senator   
   Mac Harb, had made him rethink his place in the upper chamber.   
      
   The first three have been suspended over spending irregularities; Harb   
   retired from the Senate earlier this year. The RCMP has been looking   
   into some senators' expenses, and into the repayment of Duffy's expenses   
   by Nigel Wright, who at the time was the prime minister's chief of staff.   
      
   Conservatives in the upper chamber told reporters Tuesday they believed   
   Braley had left to spend more time with his family - echoing a statement   
   he gave to the Hamilton Spectator. Conservative Senate leader Claude   
   Carignan said he didn't believe that Braley's departure stemmed from the   
   state of affairs in the Senate.   
      
   Carignan said he didn't foresee anyone resigning from the upper chamber   
   in the days or weeks to come.   
      
   But at least one other Conservative senator is expected to resign from   
   the upper chamber during the coming weeks, according to Senate sources.   
   Sources say that others in the caucus have mused about leaving their   
   posts early, believing they have been painted with the same brush as   
   Duffy, Wallin, Brazeau and Harb.   
      
   The Tory caucus in the Senate has been discontented for months over the   
   spending scandal and a political whipping from the House of Commons for   
   standing up and gutting a Conservative backbencher's bill forcing unions   
   to disclose whom they give money to.   
      
   Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Braley to the Senate in 2010,   
   giving a patronage appointment to a top Conservative donor and backer.   
   Braley's departure leaves nine vacant seats in the Senate. By the time   
   the next election rolls around, expected in 2015, there are scheduled to   
   be seven more retirements.   
      
      
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