Canada’s opposition parties once again attacked the Prime Minister’s credibility in the House of Commons as they continued to demand answers to who knew what about a payment made by the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Nigel Wright to Senator Mike Duffy to cover contested expense claims.
Conservative Senator Duffy was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2009. In recent months the senator’s expense claims have come under attack. It appears Nigel Wright, the PM’s Chief of Staff wrote a $90,000 cheque to cover the senator’s claims.
At first the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers said Wright had done the honourable thing, and saved taxpayers money. Several days after media reports about the cheque, Nigel Wright resigned as Chief of Staff, and ministers distanced themselves from their original statements.
On Wednesday (June 5) opposition parties once again raised the question about when the Prime Minister was aware of the cheque, and who else was involved in dealing with the situation.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.
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