As controversy swirled in Ottawa over a government attempt to suspend three of its own senators, one of them, Senator Patrick Brazeau, said he was offered a “backroom deal” Friday morning (October 25) by the government leader in the Senate.
“I’ll be very careful about my words here,” said the Senator, ” but I was essentially offered a backroom deal and the backroom deal was that if I stood in this chamber, apologized to Canadians and took responsibility for my actions, that my punishment would be lesser than what has been proposed in the Leader of the Government in the Senate’s motion. I’m going to try to use Parliamentary language – but I’m very disturbed at this.”
The Leader of the Government in the Senate is Senator Claude Carignan who has proposed that Senators Brazeau, Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin be suspended over contested expenses.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.
More information:
CBC News – Senator facing suspension says leader of Senate told him to apologize in exchange for lighter penalty – here
Globe and Mail – Brazeau: Conservatives offered ‘backroom deal’ for public apology – here
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