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Last week the Canadian Press had an article about the Trudeau government absolving Canadian Forces members of liability for expenses they have received over the years. Instead the Department of National Defence is repaying more than $147 million in unauthorized expenses incurred by members of the military over nearly a dozen years, the news service reported.

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The department acknowledged five years ago it had made a mistake when it allowed soldiers and civilian staff to claim some travel expenses and benefits that fell outside of federal guidelines.

The practice went on between April 1999 and January 2011, but was then halted following an independent analysis.

At the time, the military said the mistake involved “tens of millions of dollars” over five years and that it would try to get the federal Treasury Board to cover the expenses, which included the cost of sending family members of fallen Canadian soldiers to visit Kandahar during the war in Afghanistan.