Senators want to run new committee to oversee their own expenses, reject AG’s call for an independent oversight body

The chair of the Senate Internal Economy Committee, currently weighing the proposal, will likely change hands soon, with an ISG Senator taking the reins.

Independent Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain, her group's deputy facilitator, currently sits on the Senate subcommittee that proposed a new committee of Senators to oversee expenses in the Upper Chamber. That ran partly against the advice of Canada's auditor general Michael Ferguson, centre, who proposed in 2015 that a committee independent of the Senate do that job. Conservative Senator David Wells chaired the Senate Estimates Subcommittee that made the proposal to Senators on the Internal Economy Committee on Oct. 26. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and The Hill Times file photographs

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November 6, 2017

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Senators want to run new committee to oversee their own expenses, reject AG’s call for an independent oversight body

The chair of the Senate Internal Economy Committee, currently weighing the proposal, will likely change hands soon, with an ISG Senator taking the reins.

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