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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will get little reprieve from the Senate expenses scandal now that a new session of Parliament has been launched.

New Democrats have come up with a procedural ploy aimed at putting the scandal back on the front burner now that the pomp of Wednesday’s throne speech is out of the way.

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NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus intends to raise a point of privilege first thing Thursday, asking Speaker Andrew Scheer to find that Harper misled the Commons last spring when he insisted no one in his office knew that his chief of staff had bailed out Sen. Mike Duffy — an assurance contradicted over the summer by the RCMP.

Nigel Wright gave Duffy $90,000 so that he could reimburse the Senate for wrongly claimed housing allowances and living expenses.

Wright resigned as Harper’s chief of staff in May, shortly after news of the transaction leaked out.