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“My husband sacrificed to send me so I could build a relationship with Patrick. We felt it was important,” she said Tuesday.

Hillier said once Vic Fedeli got into the Tory leader’s office they were able to discern that neither the party nor Brown’s legislature budget covered the costs.

Brown was often accompanied by a party intern with whom he was having a relationship, Hillier alleges, and included social-media posts from her indicating she was in many of those places at the same time as Brown was.

In a different vein, Hillier’s complaint cites media reports that Brown rented out his Barrie-area home, and notes he didn’t disclose any income from doing so. It also asks how Brown could cover payments on a $1.7-million mortgage on the property, even on his salary of about $180,000 as an MPP and party leader.

(For this, Hillier uses an online mortgage-payment calculator to estimate Brown’s payments at about $8,100 a month, though the calculation relies heavily on assumptions about Brown’s interest rate and payment schedule.)

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Brown didn’t immediately have a response to the claims. Allegations such as Hillier’s are meant to trigger an investigation by integrity commissioner J. David Wake, a former judge. The allegations have not been tested in any formal proceeding or way at this point.

“On the weekend, I put out a statement in which I declared Mr. Brown to be unfit to be leader, unfit to be in the PC caucus, and unfit to be premier,” Hillier said in a fresh declaration against his former leader and caucusmate. “This statement was incomplete. He is also unfit to serve in the legislature.”