Court Documents Say Wright Repayed Duffy’s $90K after Refusal of Party

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The documents submitted in court by the RCMP team investigating Duffy’s senate scandal have concluded that The Conservative Party of Canada had initially intended to repay Senator Mike Duffy’s improperly claimed expenses with party funds. However, the document submitted by Cpl. Greg Horton in Ottawa reveals that later the party reversed the decision of paying Duffy’s expenses when it found that the total exceeds $32,000. The party changed its decision of repaying Duffy’s improperly claimed expenses when the amount was found to be more than $90,000.

The documents filed in court imply that the party found that Duffy’s repayment was expensive, whereas later the chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the time, Nigel Wright, offered to pay back the amount in his personal capacity instead. The information documented in the court was acquired during RCMP conversations with lawyers for Wright and a letter from Wright’s lawyers. At the time when alleged court documents were penned, Wright was not interviewed by RCMP officers. Wright’s lawyers were advised in June that a decision had not yet been made as to whether Wright would be interviewed as a witness or a suspect.

Later in an interview to the RCMP, Wright’s lawyers revealed that Duffy did not have any written contract with him, but he only asked for two conditions from the senator. The court documents detail that the conditions were that he “pay back the money right away” and that he “stop talking to the media about it.”