The <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;Senate expenses affair&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadas-senate-scandal-a-timeline-from-clashes-over-primary-residences-to-duffys-documents&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadas-senate-scandal-a-timeline-from-clashes-over-primary-residences-to-duffys-documents">Senate expenses affair</a> in the run-up to the 2015 election was a very Canadian scandal: there was no sex and no-one was found guilty of doing anything wrong.

Former senator Mike Duffy was charged with 31 offences by the RCMP over expense claims he made but was <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;exonerated by the Ontario Superior Court&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/duffy-not-guilty-verdict-called-resounding-acquittal-judge-critical-of-harper-pmo&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/duffy-not-guilty-verdict-called-resounding-acquittal-judge-critical-of-harper-pmo">exonerated by the Ontario Superior Court</a>.

Charges against two other senators over allegedly questionable expenses were subsequently dropped.

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