Why Tories Are So Afraid of What Deloitte's Runia Might Testify

[JohnyCanuck]

With all the reporting on the Senate scandal you might think there's not much more to be discovered. But reading the actual documents the RCMP turned up in its Mike Duffy investigation is definitely worth the effort.

The documents pull back the curtain on Harperland, a landscape so profoundly unethical Harper's staff does not hesitate even for a second in plotting to interfere with a supposedly independent official Senate audit.

The documents also suggest that despite the extensive media coverage on the Duffy scandal, we are still at risk of being played by the conservative political spin machine. Ezra Levant and Conrad Black are attacking the RCMP, with Black questioning how a mere RCMP corporal could have the effrontery to make allegations against a member of the elite like Nigel Wright. The scandal -- according to the Globe's Margaret Wente -- has no more legs and we should move on to writing about things that are easier to understand.

Well, here's another important leg to the story that is easy to understand and yet has gone largely unreported. The lynchpin of the PMO's strategy to contain the Duffy scandal was the Deloitte audit. For their strategy to work, Deloitte could not say Duffy's primary residence was in Ontario rather than PEI which is the province Duffy is supposed to represent. This was number one on Duffy's list of conditions. The PMO could get Duffy to repay his expenses only if, in the words of PMO staffer Patrick Rogers, they had Deloitte "locked in."

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/12/05/Tories-Afraid-of-Runia-Testimony/

[riverbendviewgal]

1. Good Post

I liked the last comment on this article.

"Orwell wrote about the Ministry of Truth , the PMO practises it !"

[arthritisR_US]

2. Here in Calgary, anyone who brings up this situation demonizes the opposition as just

being small and petty. No one understands the scope and magnitude of it all. This regime is corrupt and reminds me of a mafia family.