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Look out Mike Duffy, your reputation as Canada’s most forgetful senator is under assault.

It turns out the Old Duff is not the only former denizen of the Red Chamber who forgot where he lived.

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The auditor-general’s report on senators’ expenses reveals that a collective amnesia struck the Upper House, with senators like Rod Zimmer and Rose-Marie Losier-Cool mistakenly believing they lived somewhere else, even though they spent most of their time in the national capital region.

Recollection was restored, however, when it came to claiming living expenses on their “secondary” residence — i.e., the one in the capital where they spent all their time. I’d recommend a diet of oily fish.

The portrait painted of Zimmer by Michael Ferguson’s office is of a figure from Dickensian fiction. He claimed for everything.

If the public knows anything about the 73-year-old senator, it is as a result of the inflight fight with his 26-year-old wife, Maygan Sensenberger, who was arrested and charged with causing a disturbance after uttering threats against her husband.