OTTAWA — 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 last November, claimed about $9,700 in expenses from January to March, long after she had moved into Stornoway.
Ambrose, who is in Jerusalem to attend the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is dismissing the report as "completely inaccurate."
The Conservatives say the expenses were actually incurred last fall and include four months rent for the $2,000-a-month, 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 into order to break her lease when she moved into the official residence.
The amount also includes $869 for a three-night stay at a hotel in November, which the Conservatives say was for when her partner and his two children came to visit her before Stornoway was ready.
