{"id":51097,"date":"2015-06-02T02:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51097"},"modified":"2015-06-02T02:25:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:25:06","slug":"judge-allows-critical-senate-report-into-evidence-at-trial-of-mike-duffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/02\/judge-allows-critical-senate-report-into-evidence-at-trial-of-mike-duffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge allows critical Senate report into evidence at trial of Mike Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51114\" style=\"width: 989px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mike-Duffy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51114\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mike-Duffy.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Mike Duffy (screenshot from YouTube footage)\" width=\"989\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mike-Duffy.jpg 989w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mike-Duffy-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mike-Duffy-900x524.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Mike Duffy (screenshot from YouTube footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The judge presiding over the trial of Sen. Mike Duffy has allowed a key Senate committee report to be entered into evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Charles Vaillancourt had been considering whether a 2010 report of the internal economy committee should be regarded as factual when hearing the arguments of the case.<\/p>\n<p>The report was based heavily on three audits of the Senate&#8217;s administrative practices, undertaken by the firm Ernst and Young.<\/p>\n<p>It found that there was a lack of clear guidelines and criteria establishing what constitutes official business when senators file travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Those conclusions are important for Duffy&#8217;s defence, which is largely focused on the argument that he was operating within the Senate&#8217;s confusing and lax rules.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery in relation to his Senate travel, living and office expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Vaillancourt is also hearing a separate evidence issue that involves an internal Senate audit that the upper chamber is trying to keep from being released to the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The judge presiding over the trial of Sen. Mike Duffy has allowed a key Senate committee report to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":51114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}