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OTTAWA — If she had it to do all over again, suspended Senator Pamela Wallin wouldn’t have repaid every dollar of her questionable travel claims.

In a radio interview Thursday, Ms. Wallin said she was advised not to repay the full amount auditors had flagged as problematic, and instead was urged to pay a smaller sum of about $40,000 that should have been billed to third parties, including companies where she served on a board of directors.

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She ignored that advice and repaid the full amount.

“I regret I did it,” said Ms. Wallin, who was co-hosting a three-hour talk show on Toronto’s Newstalk 1010 radio Thursday.

She repaid about $150,000 to the Senate after a scathing review of her travel expenses. Outside auditors had found that numerous travel claims were for personal business, not related to her Senate duties. But the Conservative senator said the full sum was made up of “charges that were rung up because of retroactively imposed new rules.