{"id":1455,"date":"2017-08-04T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2023-12-26T07:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T07:53:57","slug":"bro-conrad-black-celebrating-the-end-of-the-bro-mike-duffy-farce-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/bro-conrad-black-celebrating-the-end-of-the-bro-mike-duffy-farce-national-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Bro. Conrad Black: Celebrating the end of the Bro. Mike Duffy ‘farce’ – National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Post<\/a><\/p>\n

April 29, 2016<\/p>\n

Conrad Black
\nFull Comment<\/p>\n

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My absence in England last week prevented me from celebrating the acquittal of Mike Duffy in this column, but there are a few points still to be made about it. There was never anything wrong with Mike Duffy padding around promoting the Conservative party while a paid-up senator. MPs do that and there is nothing wrong with senators doing it. There was nothing wrong with Nigel Wright paying Duffy\u2019s alleged excesses on his travel expenses. A friend can do that \u2014 nothing wrong with it and typical of Nigel to come to a friend\u2019s assistance.<\/p>\n

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(Duffy is now arguably the principal Atlantic provinces representative of the Conservative party in Parliament). Of course, Duffy had no business expensing his physical trainer, but from appearances, the trainer has not been notably successful anyway. Mike is no fitness magazine centrefold, but he has special medical problems and presumably the trainer helped him fulfill his designated role as a senator.<\/p>\n

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Asking the chairman of the management committee of the Toronto Club, Canada\u2019s ultimate source of misdirected sanctimony, Senator Irving Gerstein, to question the Senate\u2019s auditor, or even to try to alter its audit, was shabby and unwise. Gerstein, given the onerous moral standard he must uphold as chair of the most pompous committee in the country except the Supreme Court, should have declined the mission; he would not have risked anything by doing so as he is as inseparable from his senatorial emoluments as Duffy. But no illegality was intended or even contemplated…<\/p>\n

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