This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Inside sources have revealed that a senior staffer in the Prime Minister’s Office, allegedly aware of the secret and controversial payment of $90,000 made to Sen. Mike Duffy, has secretly quit the PMO. The government phone listings are not displaying the name of Chris Woodcock, who was previously listed as the director of issues management inside the Prime Minister’s Office.
The listings are anticipated to have been edited no longer than yesterday and now they don’t show Woodcock anywhere. Record shows that Woodcock’s name and telephone number was present in the government directory until Wednesday. Senior government officials informed media sources on Thursday that Woodcock has now been placed as the chief of staff to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. While the spokesperson of Prime Minister Stephen Harper remained largely quite on the matter, Julie Vaux mentioned in the email response that “we do not comment on staffing.”
The removal of Woodcock from his position in the PMO is mainly significant to the case because he was one of the three senior PMO staffers that were primarily named in court documents and were a part of RCMP criminal investigation into the $90,000 payment Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright made to Duffy. The documents filed in court narrate that Wright’s lawyers had informed investigators in a letter that Woodcock, along with the executive assistant to the chief of staff, David van Hemmen, and one-time legal advisor, Benjamin Perrin, were completely aware and knew about the payment plan.
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