Senator Mike Duffy took a back exit through a Halifax hotel kitchen after delivering a speech Wednesday night and declined to answer reporters’ questions about his claims for living allowances for an Ottawa residence.
The former broadcaster told a journalist to do “adult work” such as writing on energy issues, as kitchen staff barred reporters from approaching Duffy.
Opposition MPs are questioning whether the senator’s primary residence is a cottage in Cavendish, P.E.I., as he has repeatedly stated.
The Senate is currently auditing its members to ensure they live where they say they do.
The inquiry came as a Postmedia report in December said Duffy spends the majority of his year in his Ottawa house, yet has claimed more than $33,000 in living allowances since 2010.
Duffy was in Halifax to give the keynote address at the Maritime Energy Association and he used the occasion to suggest that the public should focus on economic development and not “other issues.”
It’s too bad I like Mike but the rules as corrupt as the players . Like Harper said he was going to reform the Senate, I thought that was up to the people but either way it hasn’t been done. The red room is appropriately named. It’s stacked has teeth with no bite and is an unrealistic expense to the tax payers. It wasn’t intended to be that way or abused by our fore fathers but it’s not their Cookie jar they are in!!! Thank you
Let’s grill him on Mike Duffy Live.
If Mr Duffy doesn’t answer questions about this situation then there’s a 100% chance that he’s hiding something.
This man has been working and living in Ottawa for decades when he worked for CTV. So we know where most of his geographical ties are.
Did he bill CTV the same living expenses when he worked there?? Makes sense why he jumped into being a senator so quickly…
FIRE THE RAT!!!!! Without pension!
No worries Mikey!
It’s not $3k or $12k, so you’re safe.
People don’t wage personal vendettas against real crooks anymore.
Too bad. I liked Mike Duffy as a journalist.. I guess the old saying that “power corrupts” is true. People do bad things just because they can…