Mr. Speaker, this looks like a paid vacation.
Last spring senators promised to review their attendance rules. That was another big promise. Yet this has not stopped 19 members of that hallowed hall of shame from missing over one-quarter of the sittings in 2011-12, not to mention all of those whose expenses are currently under scrutiny. Pamela Wallin is the most recent addition to the list.
She spent over $25,000 on “other travel” during the quarter in which the last federal election was held.
I do not know what she was doing there. She was never elected or re-elected. So what was she doing with taxpayers' money?