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{
"time": "2013-05-29 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Beaus\u00e9jour, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Beaus\u00e9jour, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3363301\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, on February 13, the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> told this House that he had personally reviewed Senator Wallin's travel expenses and found them to be perfectly fine. However, once the audit began, Senator Wallin came to a different conclusion, and she has already reimbursed tens of thousands of dollars of expenses that she must have thought were inappropriate or perhaps fraudulent. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3363302\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canadians are wondering. Why would the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> say that these expenses were perfectly fine, when he should have known that the auditors had to go back to the Senate committee to ask for permission to go even further back, because these expenses were so appalling?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3363301\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le 13 f\u00e9vrier, le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> a dit \u00e0 la Chambre qu'il avait personnellement v\u00e9rifi\u00e9 les frais de d\u00e9placement de la s\u00e9natrice Wallin et qu'il avait conclu qu'ils \u00e9taient irr\u00e9prochables. Cependant, quand la v\u00e9rification a commenc\u00e9, la s\u00e9natrice est arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 une conclusion diff\u00e9rente, et elle a aujourd'hui d\u00e9j\u00e0 rembours\u00e9 des dizaines de milliers de dollars; elle devait penser que ses r\u00e9clamations \u00e9taient injustifi\u00e9es, voire frauduleuses. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3363302\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les Canadiens se demandent donc pourquoi le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> a affirm\u00e9 que ces d\u00e9penses \u00e9taient irr\u00e9prochables alors qu'il aurait d\u00fb savoir que les v\u00e9rificateurs allaient devoir compara\u00eetre devant le comit\u00e9 du S\u00e9nat pour demander la permission de remonter encore plus loin dans le temps, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que les sommes r\u00e9clam\u00e9es \u00e9taient si scandaleuses.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/5/29/dominic-leblanc-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dominic-leblanc/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1314/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8042058",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Ethics",
"fr": "L'\u00e9thique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/5/29/",
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}
}