Mr. Speaker, if the Senate were not an independent body, those three senators would no longer be sitting in it, but the fact is it is.
The government's position is absolutely crystal clear. The time for making apologies over there has long passed. The senators have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that they should not have collected. They did it deliberately or with little care. They have done so with no or little regret.
It is time for the Senate to act and remove them from the public payroll.