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OTTAWA — A Conservative senator who until recently oversaw the audit process for Sen. Pamela Wallin’s expenses is denying her claims that she made changes to her electronic Senate calendar — a key piece of information sought by auditors — under his advice.

In a July 26 letter to the auditors examining her travel expenses, Wallin says about 400 changes to her calendar were made on the advice of Sen. David Tkachuk, who was the head of a committee overseeing several audits of senators at the time.

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But Tkachuk fired back on Tuesday morning, saying he “never, ever” told Wallin to omit anything that was relevant.

“If she did something wrong, no one told her to do it; certainly not me,” he said. “I was chair of the audit committee. I was trying to move the process along.” Tkachuk stepped down as chair in June due to illness.

In a four-page letter sent on July 26 to Deloitte, the outside company reviewing Wallin’s claims, her lawyers say Tkachuk suggested to her in April that she restrict the amount of information she was providing in order to speed up what was becoming a slow, detailed review of her travel claims made between 2009 and late 2012.