OTTAWA – A move by the Senate to strip Sen. Pamela Wallin of all but her title is being driven by personal vendettas, she said, accusing two senior Tories of conspiring to destroy her career in the upper chamber. Wallin accused two former Conservative colleagues — senators Marjory LeBreton, the former government Senate leader; and Carolyn Stewart Olsen, who sat on the committee overseeing Wallin’s audit — of co-ordinating leaks to media of personal information to force her out the party and the Senate. The Senate’s current charges against her — that she showed “gross negligence” with her travel spending — are baseless, and politically driven so she can be turfed as a political irritant for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Wallin argued. Wallin also said the timing of the motions to suspend the three senators was important: she said she was being served up on the political altar to appease Conservative supporters ahead of next week’s biennial Tory convention, and was designed to intimidate the remaining members of the Tory caucus to toe the party line.
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