Duffy Unveils A Second Payment Implying a Set Up

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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During his second address to the Senate in the same number of week, Senator Mike Duffy made a startling allegation that the $90,000 cheque drafted by Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, was not the only secret payment made to cover the emerging Senate expense scandal at the time. The senator expelled from the Conservative caucus since May, Duffy, made these exposing remarks while addressing the upper chamber on Monday.

Sen. Mike Duffy mentioned that “the cheques tell who’s telling the truth and who is not,” while placing entire blame of the senate spending scandal on the PMO. The senator exposed an attempt of coverup by the Prime Minister’s Office to pay off Duffy so he could reimburse the disputed expenses, in exchange for Conservative-dominated Senate audit committee making the scandal disappear. Facing suspension without pay for the next two years, Duffy and fellow Conservative exiles Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau have all lashed out at a PMO they say is railroading them out of political expediency.

Mr. Duffy presented a document to the Senate, illustrating that the Conservative party lawyer, Arthur Hamilton, paid an amount of $13,560 to Duffy’s legal representative last April 3. By showing that documentary proof, Duffy implied that he’d already been “coaxed” into accepting $90,000 from Nigel Wright, Harper’s chief of staff, in order to pay off disputed Senate housing expense claims. Sen. Duffy mentioned that “it was never about ethics, it was always all about politics — which explains why Arthur Hamilton was busy cutting cheques.”