OTTAWA - The Harper government moved Thursday to cauterize the bleeding from the ever-mushrooming Senate expenses scandal.
Claude Carignan, the government's leader in the Senate, introduced motions to suspend Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau, three of four senators at the heart of the scandal. The motions would strip the trio of their pay, benefits and Senate resources.
Brazeau was originally suspended with pay last winter after he was charged with assault and sexual assault.
News of the motions came just before government whip John Duncan announced in the House of Commons that Conservative MPs and senators will begin voluntarily disclosing greater details of their expenses.
The twin moves, coming on the first full day of the new parliamentary session, appeared aimed at quelling some of the raging Senate controversy that has engulfed the government for almost a full year.
But opposition parties signalled they won't let up on their relentless attacks on the government's ethics.
NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus won the support of other opposition parties Thursday for his bid to have a Commons committee determine whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper deliberately misled the Commons over the Senate expenses scandal or was deceived by his own staff.
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