This is an interesting read. Well...... interesting is subjective.
This is a link to the Senate debates from Tuesday, the day Harper made his infamous speech and the first day of Parliament after the Parliamentary break the week before. This has some very important information regarding the Senate scandal. For one, the investigations into Brazeau and Harb were called before Duffy's despite the fact that Duffy was indicted in this mess before Harb. The investigations were all started due to media reports (this is imporant). Harb and Brazeau's were sent to subcommittee's of the Internal Economy Standing Committee, where as Duffy's was handled by the Standing committee (the one with Furey, Olsen and Tkachuk). Why the difference?
Also Mac Harb claims that the independent audit by Deloitte decided that there was no clear rule about primary residency, yet the Senate committtee ignored that, and deloitte's recommendations and created their own decision outside of the facts. They also stated that the rules were clear and unambiguous in their reports about Brazeau and Harb, but state that the rules were ambiguous in their report about Duffy.
A Conservative Senator also argues at one point that they shouldn't be investigating media claims about the Duffy/Wright thing (or shouldn't be going solely off of them) despite the fact that the original audits were spurred by media reports, seems like a little bit of a contradiction.
There's more, but these are the highlights. Definitely worth the read!
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