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Wednesdays with @Kady: Senate expenses questions continue

As Ottawa waited to see whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes questions on the Senate expenses scandal in Peru this afternoon, CBC Politics blogger Kady O'Malley took readers questions on the latest controversial developments.

Who takes questions about the Senate expenses scandal? We do! Replay our live chat

RAW: No questions for Harper

11 years ago
Duration 1:55
Journalists aren't allowed to ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the Senate expenses scandal, following his speech to caucus Tuesday.

Frustrated by their lack of access to Stephen Harper, members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery attending the prime minister's speech to his Conservative caucus Tuesdaycould onlyshout outa few of their many questions on the ongoing Senate expenses scandal. Theirattempts to get answerswere ignored.

The few journalists travelling with Harper in Peru today, including the CBC's Terry Milewski, had a limited opportunity to question Harper just after our live chat. But in the meantime, CBC Politics blogger Kady O'Malleytackled our readers' questions about all the fast-changing developments.

So if you're...

  • Trying to sort out the timelines and who should have known what in the prime minister's office about Senator Mike Duffy's $90K "gift" payment from the now-departed Nigel Wright, or
  • Puzzled by who's been talking and who hasn't and why that might be, or
  • Confused by all the different Senate committees (and steering committees and sub-committees, and private committees and public-but-not-televised proceedings of the full body) and which are "independent" and which may havehad "interference," or
  • Mixed up over which investigations are confirmed versus which ones are just assumed to be underway, and who asked for what inquiries (and which havereal teeth),or
  • Wondering what effecttoday's announcement of"new rules" for Senate travel expenses could have, or
  • Baffledby anything else involving allegedly-altered committee reports, secret deals with verbal agreementsor documents that may or may not exist and much, much more... we're here to help.

We may not have all the answers, but we can help sort out what's known or unknown so far and which questions remain.

Replay our livechat:

Mobile-friendly live blog also available.