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“Jason Kenney was collecting around $900/month in secondary residence subsidies (in Ottawa) at the same time he was listing his address in Calgary as a senior’s retirement home. Those subsidies were contingent on him permanently residing in Calgary,” Morrow posted.

Morrow did not say which rule he was referring to that ties subsidies to permanent residence. Kenney’s staff say no such rule exists.

House of Commons policies say that time spent living in a home is only one of many conditions to be considered for an MP to qualify to have a residence in a second city.

The rules state that as long as MPs have ties to an area — such as paying taxes or having a driver’s licence from there — they qualify for the second residence.

Kenney reiterated Tuesday that he did qualify and has been an Alberta resident for three decades.

“I was fully compliant with the rules,” he said in an interview on CBC radio.

“There’s no requirement that you live half the year in your constituency, because that just isn’t possible (for some MPs), particularly for busy federal ministers.”

He said his time as a cabinet minister, including in the Immigration, Employment and Defence portfolios, kept him busy with travel.

“I was in Ottawa, I think, about 140 nights a year,” he said. “I was on the road or in Alberta the rest of the time.

“I was living a lot of the year, frankly, in hotels. I used to joke where people would say, ‘Where do you live?’ and I would say, ‘On an airplane.”‘