EXPENSES CLAIMED FOR OLD CONDO, NOT STORNOWAY: AMBROSE

Rona Ambrose says she did not claim accommodation expenses while she was also living at Stornoway, her taxpayer-funded official residence in Ottawa. A Huffington Post report says expense reports from the House of Commons show Ambrose, who became interim Conservative leader in November, claimed about $9,700 in expenses from January to March, long after she had moved into Stornoway. Ambrose says the report is “completely inaccurate.” The Conservatives say the expenses were incurred last fall and include four months rent for the $2,000-amonth, one-bedroom condo where she used to live in Ottawa. That includes October and November, when she was still living there and the $4,000 she had to pay to cover December and January to break her lease when she moved into the official residence.