CuriosityCat: Prime Minister Harper leaves country while Ottawa burns

The Senate under siege

With the press baying at the prime minister, calling for answers to serious questions about a possible deal with a senator accused of fudging expenses, PM Stephen Harper decided to leave Canada and visit South America. Resolute in his own righteousness, Harper refused to allow “distractions” to prevent his government from concentrating on the economy. Despite an openly rebellious crowd of journalists, who felt they had been unceremoniously brushed aside while raising serious questions about serious issues, Harper refused to address the issue which is tearing his party apart, and consuming Ottawa: Harper left on a (Read more…)

CuriosityCat: Senator Duffy Affair: An explosive sentence

Senator Duffy

I have underlined and bolded an explosive sentence in the Andrea Janus article about the CTV report on the agreement dealing with the payment to Senator Duffy of an amount of $90,000 regarding expenses he claimed. Remember that one sentence as this affair starts unfolding! Here it is: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former special counsel and legal adviser worked on the legal deal between Nigel Wright and Sen. Mike Duffy’s lawyer that called for Wright to help Duffy pay off $90,000 in invalid expense claims, CTV News has learned. Sources told CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife that (Read more…) . . . → Read More: CuriosityCat: Senator Duffy Affair: An explosive sentence

Cowichan Conversations: Marg Delahunt Interviews Senator Patrick Duffy

The Ranting Canadian: Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator…

Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator Mike Duffy on CBC Newsworld’s Power & Politics. The title given to the Youtube video is 100% accurate: “a Drunken Mike Duffy attacks the Canadian Press, elected Members of Parliament”.

I remember seeing it the first time it aired. Duffy was attempting to justify massive overspending by thieving, gluttonous, patronage-appointed senators, including himself. I don’t recall the Harper Conservatives ever doing anything to crack down on this flagrant misuse of taxpayer dollars. On the contrary, the problem seems to have gotten worse.

Duffy is such a crooked, self-entitled, lying piece of crap!

CuriosityCat: Where’s Wuffy?

Where’s Wuffy?

From Rex Murphy report on CBC TV last night about the location of the residence of Senator Duffy

The Ranting Canadian: Mike Duffy: pig in the city Canadian senator Mike Duffy, the…

Mike Duffy: pig in the city

Canadian senator Mike Duffy, the porcine Conservative from Ottawa, has been caught in yet another scandal, this time for falsely claiming Prince Edward Island as his primary residence and subsequently billing the Canadian taxpayers for related living expenses (more than $30,000 since 2010!). The truth is that Duffy hasn’t lived in PEI since about 1971 (a fact that is well documented by a long trail of official paperwork). His PEI residence is merely a cottage that he occasionally visits on holiday.

After this discrepancy started to bubble to the surface, Duffy ordered

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Canadian senator Mike Duffy, the…