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It was not known who Duffy met with on the Monday. But Tkachuk confirmed that his own visit in the same conference room the next day was with Wright, the top PMO staffer who later resigned after giving Duffy about $90,000 to help him pay back his housing expenses. The RCMP are investigating that transaction.

Tkachuk’s and Gerstein’s Tuesday visits were followed by a brief talk Wednesday between Duffy and the prime minister. That chat, which took place in the Conservative caucus room right after a caucus meeting, saw Duffy unsuccessfully plead his case against having to repay any of his housing claims.

Visitor logs for the Langevin Block, released to Postmedia News using the access to information law, add to the timeline of events on the Duffy affair already in the public domain, and show Duffy inside the PMO building in the days before he publicly announced on Feb. 22 that he would repay his improper housing expenses.

These are also the only times that the names of Tkachuk, then chairman of the Senate’s internal economy committee, and Gerstein, who heads the Conservative Fund of Canada, appear in the February visitor logs for the Langevin building, which is across the street from Parliament Hill. Outside of the two days in February, none of the three men appear as visitors to the Prime Minister’s Office in the visitor logs on any other days from January to April.