I don't know if Senator Mike Duffy will be convicted of fraud and various other charges but I urge people to read Christie Blatchford's National Post columns and watch her videos summarising the daily events at his trial. Duffy may be able to convince a judge that the rules were too vague and allow him to walk away a free man but he clearly fudged or broke the rules on many occasions. What is astonishing is Duffy's sense of entitlement, shocking expense claims and cavalier attitude towards taxpayers money.
Duffy's attitude appears to have been that the mere act of waking up entitled him to bill the taxpayer for every moment forward until he lay his head on a pillow that night. Many times in a taxpayer funded hotel. His 6-day trip to BC to visit family at the taxpayers expense without any real senatorial business is particularly galling.
I recall when Duffy was a TV pundit on Parliament Hill that he was so deep into the Conservative party pockets that I was astonished that Liberal and NDP politicians would even appear on his show. They should have showed an ounce of integrity and self worth and boycotted his program. It is little wonder that Harper awarded his lapdog with a senate seat.
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