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* Mike Duffy trial awaits witness who implicated PM’s top aide. Former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright has left the court building, no doubt to his eternal relief. Next on the block is Stephen Harper’s former legal adviser, Benjamin Perrin. He is expected to provide some who-knew-what-where-and-when testimony.
* PM’s former legal adviser, Benjamin Perrin, a ‘hero’ in the campaign against human trafficking. Lawyer Benjamin Perrin is regarded as a “hero” by the U.S. State Department. He’s the author of books and articles on the evils of human trafficking. He has won numerous awards for his legal and humanitarian work. None of that will likely count for much when the University of British Columbia law professor testifies Thursday in the Mike Duffy trial.
Really, where’s the scandal?
* Andrew Coyne: Oh, Harper, forgive us, we misjudged you over the Duffy affair. If you like your pundits plunged in irony, then attend to this … I am beginning to think we have done Stephen Harper a disservice. Consider what he has learned about the Duffy affair. Wholly without his knowledge, several of his closest advisers, including his chief of staff, his principal secretary, and his legal counsel, together with his Senate house leader, the chairman of the Conservative party fundraising arm and the party lawyer, conspired over a period of several months to pay Duffy for his improperly claimed living expenses, then to pretend to the public that he had repaid them out of his own pocket, then to attempt to block, shut down, or rewrite a confidential audit, then finally to rewrite a Senate committee report so as to absolve Duffy of any fault. Imagine the sense of betrayal he must have felt as it slowly dawned on him that everyone knew. Everyone, that is, but him.
* Terry Glavin: Canadian politics is boring, thank goodness. Canadian politics just now, no matter what the shouters have to say for themselves, is not taking its trajectory in a very American way, or in any British fashion. For this, we should count ourselves very lucky. The moment of highest drama so far was that cranky man — Grandpa from the Simpsons? — who upstaged Stephen Harper with a profanity-laced tirade against journalists whose impudence it was to ask Harper about the ongoing bribery trial of Sen. Mike Duffy. We should be glad to be so boring. At least we have nothing like the Republican Party’s presidential-ticket nomination, dominated as it is by a cast of gargoyles.
* Colby Cosh: If there’s a scandal in the Duffy affair, why can’t I spot it? I wish I’d captured the exact quote from Twitter, but a paraphrase will have to do: someone said recently, “If you want to feel better about Canada, try explaining the Duffy-Wright scandal to someone from another country in one sentence.” I cannot help feeling that there is something to this. In the case of Nigel Wright — as distinguished from the issue of Mike Duffy being a scurrilous, greedy trimmer, a truth we did not need a trial to tell us — the fundamental problem is what the Conservative party and Wright did to defray the questionable expenses imposed upon the treasury. In nutshell: Duffy was unwilling to pay back his expense claims; Wright tried to pre-empt the issue by making use of his personal fortune. In other words, Wright to donated private dollars — his own — to the public treasury. Where’s the scandal?
* Father Raymond J. de Souza: The Duffy scandal is not worth the attention, or the cost. Nigel Wright’s testimony is largely that he insisted that Mike Duffy pay back expenses that were plausibly within the bounds of the rules but outside the bounds of common sense ethics. Duffy balked, so Wright gave him the money he needed to reimburse the Senate. Nevertheless, in this upside-down trial, Duffy’s lawyer protests that Wright was engaged in a terrible fraud, perpetrated, amazingly enough, on Duffy himself. If that’s the worst Canada can produce in terms of political scandal, Canadians should be grateful.
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There’s more to this election than Duffy, really?
* Mayors of Ottawa, Gatineau want local issues at centre stage in federal election. Let’s focus, eh! The mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau want to see local issues front and centre during the federal election campaign. They’ve announced a plan that calls for debates on local issues along with questionnaires on priorities and in-person briefings for area candidates with the two city halls. The primary issues include infrastructure, transit and affordable housing. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, the municipalities want a commitment from federal leaders to appoint a representative for each of the Ottawa and Gatineau mayors to the board of directors of the National Capital Commission.
* Trudeau promises a Liberal government would make it easier for Canadians to work flexible hours. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says that, if elected this fall, his government would make it easier for more than one million Canadians to have more flexible work hours to care for children or other loved ones. The way Canadians live and work is changing, and he claims his plan would help families spend more time together and also boost economic growth. His government would amend the Canada Labour Code to ensure that every employee covered by federal labour law would have the legal right to ask their bosses for changes in their workday start and finish times, or even the ability to work from home.
* Calgary Liberal candidate pulls out after old offensive tweets surface. Ala Buzreba, Liberal candidate in Calgary who landed in hot water over a series of offensive Twitter postings she wrote in the past, has pulled out of the federal election. She wrote on her Facebook page that she was stepping down as a candidate while again apologizing “without reservation, for posting comments that do not accurately reflect my views and who I am.” Among the postings was one she tweeted denouncing a tweeter supportive of Israel. Buzreba responded” “Your mother should have used that coat hanger.” That was in April 2011. Buzreba is now 21.
Riding profile
* Trudeau ‘star’ challenges Tory in once-safe Liberal Orléans. In its past incarnations as Ottawa-Orléans, Carleton-Gloucester and Ottawa-Carleton, the riding boasted a long history of Liberal dominance that once made it one of the safest seats for the party in Ontario. The Liberal reign came to an end in 2006, when the Tories snatched the riding, then held it for two more terms. The question in this election is whether a “star” like Liberal Andrew Leslie, a former military man, can unseat a well-entrenched incumbent like Conservative Royal Galipeau. New Democrat candidate Nancy Tremblay will have to count on a national Orange Wave for her to beat the two others.
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* PM’s former legal adviser, Benjamin Perrin, a ‘hero’ in the campaign against human trafficking. Lawyer Benjamin Perrin is regarded as a “hero” by the U.S. State Department. He’s the author of books and articles on the evils of human trafficking. He has won numerous awards for his legal and humanitarian work. None of that will likely count for much when the University of British Columbia law professor testifies Thursday in the Mike Duffy trial.
Really, where’s the scandal?
* Andrew Coyne: Oh, Harper, forgive us, we misjudged you over the Duffy affair. If you like your pundits plunged in irony, then attend to this … I am beginning to think we have done Stephen Harper a disservice. Consider what he has learned about the Duffy affair. Wholly without his knowledge, several of his closest advisers, including his chief of staff, his principal secretary, and his legal counsel, together with his Senate house leader, the chairman of the Conservative party fundraising arm and the party lawyer, conspired over a period of several months to pay Duffy for his improperly claimed living expenses, then to pretend to the public that he had repaid them out of his own pocket, then to attempt to block, shut down, or rewrite a confidential audit, then finally to rewrite a Senate committee report so as to absolve Duffy of any fault. Imagine the sense of betrayal he must have felt as it slowly dawned on him that everyone knew. Everyone, that is, but him.
* Terry Glavin: Canadian politics is boring, thank goodness. Canadian politics just now, no matter what the shouters have to say for themselves, is not taking its trajectory in a very American way, or in any British fashion. For this, we should count ourselves very lucky. The moment of highest drama so far was that cranky man — Grandpa from the Simpsons? — who upstaged Stephen Harper with a profanity-laced tirade against journalists whose impudence it was to ask Harper about the ongoing bribery trial of Sen. Mike Duffy. We should be glad to be so boring. At least we have nothing like the Republican Party’s presidential-ticket nomination, dominated as it is by a cast of gargoyles.
* Colby Cosh: If there’s a scandal in the Duffy affair, why can’t I spot it? I wish I’d captured the exact quote from Twitter, but a paraphrase will have to do: someone said recently, “If you want to feel better about Canada, try explaining the Duffy-Wright scandal to someone from another country in one sentence.” I cannot help feeling that there is something to this. In the case of Nigel Wright — as distinguished from the issue of Mike Duffy being a scurrilous, greedy trimmer, a truth we did not need a trial to tell us — the fundamental problem is what the Conservative party and Wright did to defray the questionable expenses imposed upon the treasury. In nutshell: Duffy was unwilling to pay back his expense claims; Wright tried to pre-empt the issue by making use of his personal fortune. In other words, Wright to donated private dollars — his own — to the public treasury. Where’s the scandal?
* Father Raymond J. de Souza: The Duffy scandal is not worth the attention, or the cost. Nigel Wright’s testimony is largely that he insisted that Mike Duffy pay back expenses that were plausibly within the bounds of the rules but outside the bounds of common sense ethics. Duffy balked, so Wright gave him the money he needed to reimburse the Senate. Nevertheless, in this upside-down trial, Duffy’s lawyer protests that Wright was engaged in a terrible fraud, perpetrated, amazingly enough, on Duffy himself. If that’s the worst Canada can produce in terms of political scandal, Canadians should be grateful.
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There’s more to this election than Duffy, really?
* Mayors of Ottawa, Gatineau want local issues at centre stage in federal election. Let’s focus, eh! The mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau want to see local issues front and centre during the federal election campaign. They’ve announced a plan that calls for debates on local issues along with questionnaires on priorities and in-person briefings for area candidates with the two city halls. The primary issues include infrastructure, transit and affordable housing. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, the municipalities want a commitment from federal leaders to appoint a representative for each of the Ottawa and Gatineau mayors to the board of directors of the National Capital Commission.
* Trudeau promises a Liberal government would make it easier for Canadians to work flexible hours. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says that, if elected this fall, his government would make it easier for more than one million Canadians to have more flexible work hours to care for children or other loved ones. The way Canadians live and work is changing, and he claims his plan would help families spend more time together and also boost economic growth. His government would amend the Canada Labour Code to ensure that every employee covered by federal labour law would have the legal right to ask their bosses for changes in their workday start and finish times, or even the ability to work from home.
* Calgary Liberal candidate pulls out after old offensive tweets surface. Ala Buzreba, Liberal candidate in Calgary who landed in hot water over a series of offensive Twitter postings she wrote in the past, has pulled out of the federal election. She wrote on her Facebook page that she was stepping down as a candidate while again apologizing “without reservation, for posting comments that do not accurately reflect my views and who I am.” Among the postings was one she tweeted denouncing a tweeter supportive of Israel. Buzreba responded” “Your mother should have used that coat hanger.” That was in April 2011. Buzreba is now 21.
Riding profile
* Trudeau ‘star’ challenges Tory in once-safe Liberal Orléans. In its past incarnations as Ottawa-Orléans, Carleton-Gloucester and Ottawa-Carleton, the riding boasted a long history of Liberal dominance that once made it one of the safest seats for the party in Ontario. The Liberal reign came to an end in 2006, when the Tories snatched the riding, then held it for two more terms. The question in this election is whether a “star” like Liberal Andrew Leslie, a former military man, can unseat a well-entrenched incumbent like Conservative Royal Galipeau. New Democrat candidate Nancy Tremblay will have to count on a national Orange Wave for her to beat the two others.
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