PM Harper to Speak about Senate Controversy at Caucus Meeting

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to address his caucus on Tuesday morning regarding the ongoing scandal around Sen. Mike Duffy’s repayment of improper housing expenses, although he has refused to answer any of the reporters’ questions on the matter.

It was revealed in a report last week that PM Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, personally wrote a cheque of amount more than $90,000 to bail out Sen. Duffy from the repayment of the improperly filed housing expenses. Consequently, Wright publicly announced to have retired on Sunday, whereas previously Duffy had quit the Conservative caucus on Thursday. Another Conservative-appointed senator audited over improperly claimed housing expenses, Pamela Wallin, resigned from the Conservative caucus on Friday. Harper has scheduled a caucus meeting today to extend his remarks on the matter.

A reporter of CTV, Fife, stated that “the prime minister is going to meet his caucus at 9:30, he’s going to give a speech to them and then the media will be ushered out of the room so we’ll have no opportunity to ask the kind of questions that need to be asked of the prime minister in a public setting.” Furthermore, Fife complained that “he’ll say he was in the dark on all of these activities and that the Conservative government needs to return to its roots — that is running an ethical, transparent government. And if anyone in future is caught fleecing taxpayers they will be removed immediately from the caucus.”