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Mike Duffy
“This is the centrepiece for Canadian government.”
There’s a secret Ottawa Senators carving in the Senate.
Sen. John Wallace served for eight years.
3 senators accused of overstepping authority.
It was called "Project AMBLE."
Mike Duffy won. Two and a half years after warning Canadians he "violated no laws" and "followed the rules," the senator from Prince Edward Island was vindicated Thursday when an Ontario court judge acquitted him of all 31 charges laid against him. What's more, Justice Charles Vaillancourt sided with Duffy. It was he, the Old Duff, not the Prime Minister's Office, the judge said, who had been the victim of a "mindboggling and shocking" series of events. Duffy's "free will" had been "overwhelmed" and he had "capitulated" as a result of the PMO's -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office, that is, -- "threatening efforts," the judge said.
They're putting their professional backgrounds to use at the Commons' heritage committee studying the state of local media in Canada.
Duffy's defence -- which I will refer to as "The Costanza" -- may become a standard courtroom tactic should his lawyers succeed. This new legal principle would hold that one is innocent unless the law, social behaviour and even etiquette are explicitly explained in advance in each case.
The senator flooded the court with small details Friday.
