That is a lot of rhetoric, Mr. Speaker.
The fact of the matter is this. The victims here are the Canadian people who expect from all parliamentarians that they will treat public money with the appropriate respect and integrity it deserves. It is not appropriate for someone to claim an expense that he really did not incur even though he thinks he can technically argue it is somehow within the rules. That is not proper.
One expects that the Senate will take the appropriate action, as it is doing, to deal with this.