Duffy found not guilty of charges of fraud, breach of trust
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Yes based on the evidence from the trial there will be a lawsuit.
And of course the Canadian taxpayers will have to pay for Duffy's lawyers first, then a lawsuit for damages.
Hopefully the resulting lawsuit payments come from the individuals personally and not the Taxpayers of Canada.
Duffy's reputation (yes I know but) has been or at least was destroyed plus all of the stress and related damage is surely worth something for being the victim of this witch hunt.
Sen. Mike Duffy says Prime Minister Stephen Harper, concerned about how the senator's burgeoning expense scandal was going over with the Conservative "base," ordered him to repay $90,000 in disallowed housing allowance claims.
In a riveting speech to his Senate colleagues, Duffy spun a tale of "conspiracy" as he described a February meeting with Harper and his then chief of staff, Nigel Wright, during which the senator pleaded his innocence.
"But the prime minister wasn't interested in explanations or the truth," Duffy said, recounting what Harper himself told him.
"'It's not about what you did,'" Duffy quoted Harper as saying. "'It's about the perception of what you did that's been created in the media. The rules are inexplicable to our base' ...
"I was ordered by the prime minister to pay the money back, end of discussion."
Duffy said he spoke by telephone several times with Wright, repeatedly insisting that to "pay back money I didn't owe would destroy my reputation."
‘I was ordered by the prime minister to pay the money back,’ Duffy tells Senate | Toronto Star
Like I said, This was a very carefully mean spirited, planned political hit, by the NDP, to create a "kick Harper out" of office linch mob like sentiment among the electorate for something that all senators of different allegiance was doing.
It created a culture of guilty befor proven among voters who then took law into their own hands by voting Harper out.
Many Canadians fell for "the Spin"
Like Harper said "The rules are inexplicable to our base".
The rules are too complicated for those dumb ****s to even understand.
I myself explained that all of this was political spin to get Harper out of office. But everyone got on the band wagon.
It's Ironic that the NDP lost to Trudeau :lol: Mad Tom didn't see that one coming :lol:
There is a frightening edge to this. Apparently, a politician can order the Mounties to charge a citizen with "offence X" say, bribery when there is no evidence for it. If this is so, none of us are safe from arbitrary arrest for purely politica!l purposes. That is how houlags get populated .... by state police under the orders of the State.
The Trudeau PMO fashion police will start rounding up ugly people?
Duffy's back in the jug?
Could be worse. Could be a thread about Western Provincial economies and transfer payments.
Good about another one of those to ruin your Sunday Brunch?
Hopefully he will be found guilty in the court of public opinion as being stupid, at the very least. I can't believe that he and others didn't know that it wasn't exactly "kosher" to charge the people of Canada for living somewhere for 25+ years and then claim housing allowances because he supposedly represented another province. How stupid can you be? Common sense was lacking there for sure as was it lacking in the Judge as far as I can see.
And, if the "rules" are so vague as some say, why are they vague? Is it on purpose to support those in the so-called honorable chamber so that they can line their pockets without recourse? Absolutely no conscience, no common sense, no moral authority - simple stupidity.
JMHO
And, if the "rules" are so vague as some say, why are they vague? Is it on purpose to support those in the so-called honorable chamber so that they can line their pockets without recourse? Absolutely no conscience, no common sense, no moral authority - simple stupidity.
JMHO
I can't agree, because we have elements in our new government that conspires with political Islam.
Well, now I have been around long enough to watch several Prime Ministers rule out of the PMO, trying to apply presidential powers. This trend started with Trudeau senior. Most of the Prime Ministers since then have been Liberal and each one has added a little more power to themselves and given a little less to the Commons.
We're not safe from any of them. Power corrupts. Harper and the Reformacons went to Ottawa to "clean the joint up" and they probably meant it two decades ago. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Depends, Are you one of those fools that dose not?
Nice progressive shame tactic btw.
That's only because you don't mind a big fat new tax up your ***.
if you take new taxes into account. Liberals are as damaging.
Canadians are tired of lazy people complaining about taxes.
They would rather have an affirmative government that takes real action.
They would rather have an affirmative government that takes real action.
hehehe... There's a reason folks make reference to The Liberanos
You're thinking of the Conservatives bud
Because the liberals are the kings at giving a public perception that something is being done.
One Photo op at a time.