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Originally Posted by Zarley
According to the House of Commons guide on member allowances, Kenney was acting in accordance with policy on this:
Obviously as a cabinet minister at that time, Kenney would have been spending most of his time in Ottawa or on the road, but members are required to maintain either a primary or secondary residence in or near their constituency:
And, according to the criteria specified, Kenney's Alberta residence would be categorized as primary per the following: |
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Originally Posted by Wiggum_PI
The handbook for MPs expenses and allowances has quite a loose definition of what qualifies as a primary residence. Briefly reading through it, I really don't see how Kenney has broken any rules here. You might not like it, but they way things are written its pretty clear he's allowed the ~$10k in secondary residence expenses.
If I was Morrow I would tread carefully, he's getting into defamation and libel territory.
Here's a good article from Global, has a link to the MP Handbook...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/globaln...a-calgary/amp/ |
If you guys want to justify Kenney’s actions by arguing that he technically didn’t do anything against the rules have at it. For me though, a middle aged man claiming a basement in a seniors retirement complex(which he may not have been allowed to reside in in the first place) as his primary residence so that he could get tax payer funded allowances for his “secondary” residence in Ottawa seems like a clear abuse of the system. The fact that Kenney has made a career out of being critical of wasteful government spending just adds a little irony into the mix.
But let’s forget about the taxpayers for a moment and focus on the real vitcims of Kenney’s shenanigans, the pizza delivery guys: