The charges related to alleged incidents in 2013 and 2014, when Meredith was a sitting senator, according to Ottawa police.
Meredith resigned in 2017 after an ethics committee investigation found that he had used his post to “lure” a teenage girl into a sexual relationship and recommended his expulsion from the Senate.
The Senate has since paid a compensation package of almost half a million dollars to a group of nine former employees.
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