he took time off for health reasons. His previous minimal contributions to Senate debates dropped even further, the Star found.

There was no suspension of pay, and he continued with a $140,000 a year salary, plus enjoyed a healthy travel, hotel and meal allowance when he was in Ottawa or on the road. His office stayed open, but with a limited staff — all told the two-year expenditure added up to roughly $600,000, according to partially incomplete Senate records. A recent Star story revealed that in the years preceding the investigation, and while he was having his interactions with Ms. M, he expended taxpayer dollars, including stays at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa and trips where he visited her in Ottawa and does not appear to have been performingboth times she conducted an interview. Ms. M told the same story to Ricard as she had to the Star. Meredith had courted her, touched her inappropriately in his office, and then they had used Skype and Viber to have sexual exchanges. Ms. M was falling in love with the then 48-year-old Meredith, a married father of two who was also a pastor in the Toronto area.

Sen. Don Meredith says he ?deeply? regrets his sexual relationship with a teenager and, in this video published on March 16, asks for forgiveness. Meredith says he is weighing his options after a scathing ethics report was released the previous week.

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The Ottawa police began an investigation and stopped shortly after. Ms. M was concerned her identity would