Duffy Says PM Personally Overlooked Senate Expenses Repayment

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Senator Mike Duffy has finally unveiled his side of the senate scandal encircling his membership in a lengthy speech to the Senate, alleging that Prime Minister Stephen Harper personally ordered him to repay questionable housing expenses during a private meeting the two had along with Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Nigel Wright, last February.

The allegation has come to light for the first time, as Duffy accused that only three men were present in a single room in connection with the Senate expenses affair. Whereas, on the contrary, the Prime Minister’s Office maintains that Mr. Wright, then chief of staff, acted alone when he gave Mr. Duffy $90,000 to pay back expense claims that were under investigation. In his speech addressed on Tuesday, Mr. Duffy stated that he met privately with Mr. Harper and Mr. Wright, where it were “just the three of us,” after a caucus meeting on Feb. 13 where he insisted that he had not broken any rules. Mr. Duffy stated “but the Prime Minister wasn’t interested in explanations or the truth: It’s not about what you did. It’s about the perception of what you did that has been created by the media. The rules are inexplicable to our base.”

Prime Minister’s Office refused a request for their views on the recent allegations on Tuesday evening. Mr. Duffy’s speech has come at a very sensitive time when the Senate is debating on a motion filed to suspend him and two other senators without pay.