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Crantor said:No, the channel isn't changing but the story and plot line sure is...
How much to do you want to bet that Duffy is saving something for the day of the CPC convention to try an upstage the PM's speech?
If Sen Duffy hasn't used all his weapons yet then's he's a lousy tactician. He may be out of the Senate ~ and therefore unable to use parliamentary privilege to shield himself from lawsuits ~ before Prime Minister Harper speaks in Calgary.
I have considerable sympathy for Sen Wallin: I think she used the rules, as written, to her personal advantage, but so, I suspect, did many, many of her colleagues. I think she was caught when the auditors used new rules against her old actions.
I have a tiny bit of sympathy for Sen Brazeau: I believe he knowingly cheated but, again, so did others and he may have thought it was normal. He should have known it was unacceptable.
I have no sympathy for Sen Duffy: he was billing the people of Canada for things for which he was already being paid bythe Conservative Party of Canada; that's not "harmless" double dipping, that's fraud and that's a crime.
I have one big problem with idea of a Senate inquiry. If such a thing is held and evidence is called it will, likely, make any subsequent legal action impossible ~ I think criminal courts will regard all such evidence as tainted and will not allow it to be used or even introduced thus giving Duffy et al a "get out of jail free card."
Edit: punctuation :-[