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Canadian senators Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau have been suspended from the Senate without pay for the next two years, but they will keep their medical and life insurance benefits.
“These senators have been found to have claimed inappropriate expenses in our views; therefore, they should not be collecting a public paycheque,” Senate leader Claude Carignan said after the vote on Tuesday.
However, the three senators have not been convicted of a criminal offence.
The last time a senator was suspended without pay was in 1998.