Eve Adams timeline

Conservative MP Eve Adams claimed $3,000 in her 2011 election expense return for salon visits and personal grooming products. Are hair salon visits legitimate election expenses?

November 10, 2003 – Adams is elected to City of Mississauga and Region of Peel Councils. She is re-elected in 2006 and 2010.

May 2011 – Adams wins the federal riding of Mississauga-Brampton South, defeating incumbent Liberal Navdeep Bains by over 5,000 votes. Prime Minister Stephen Harper appoints her as parliamentary secretary for Veterans Affairs.

June 2013 – Adams is under fire for trying to claim $2,777 in personal expenses, including salon trips and dry-cleaning costs incurred in the 2011 election.

August 2013 – Adams is appointed parliamentary secretary for Health.

December 2013 – Adams is accused of having a tantrum after she deemed a $6 car wash unsatisfactory, blocking access to an Ottawa Esso station for 15 minutes.

March 2014 - Adams announces she intends to seek the nomination for Oakville-North Burlington after her Mississauga-Brampton South riding is split.

March 19, 2014 - Adams angers a crowd by attending a board meeting for the new riding of Oakville-North Burlington, where she is asked to leave.

March 28, 2014 – Adams is accused of using her taxpayer-funded privileges and supplies to mail voters in the Oakville-North Burlington riding.

March 30, 2014 – Adams’s partner, Dimitri Soudas, is ousted as the Conservative Party’s executive director amid controversy surrounding Adams’ nomination bid. Soudas is accused of interfering in the nomination process on Adams’s behalf.

May 2014 – The Conservative party first clears Adams to run for the nomination in Oakville-North Burlington, but later puts the nomination on hold after investigating tactics by both her and Natalia Lishchyna.

August 1, 2014 – Eve Adams withdraws from the Oakville-North Burlington race, citing an injury suffered a concussion suffered after slipping in the doorway of an Ottawa restaurant in February.

February 9, 2015 – Adams announces she has left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Party.