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MP Glover files new expense claim amid election expense scandal

The Canadian Press Published Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:58AM CST

Conservative MP Shelly Glover arrives at a committee meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday June 6, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

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Manitoba Conservative MP Shelly Glover has changed her mind and decided to file a new expense claim with Elections Canada for the 2011 federal election.

House Speaker Andrew Scheer says it's up to the committee on procedure and House affairs to decide if Glover and her Manitoba colleague James Bezan should lose their MP privileges until their fight with Elections Canada is settled.

Scheer had earlier declined to suspend them because they had both gone to court to settle their disagreement with the elections watchdog.

But he reconsidered the matter after Liberal complaints and decided to let the committee decide the fate of the two Manitoba MPs.