Ethics committee calls for expulsion of senator over sex with teen

OTTAWA – The Senate ethics committee is recommending the upper house take the unprecedented step of expelling disgraced Senator Don Meredith for engaging in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl.

It’s now up to the full Senate, which has never before expelled a member, to decide whether to accept the recommendation.

A vote cannot occur before next Tuesday at the earliest, as Meredith must be given five sitting days in which to respond to the report, if he wishes to do so.

Meredith’s lawyer, Bill Trudell, said the senator has a right to speak to the Senate and has the right of final reply and will decide in the next few days whether to exercise those options.

Meredith has called the affair a moral failing — but insists he did not have intercourse with the girl until after she turned 18 and has rejected demand that he resign.

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