{"id":58937,"date":"2015-08-12T23:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58937"},"modified":"2025-01-20T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:45:16","slug":"ndp-wastes-little-time-connecting-return-of-duffy-trial-to-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/12\/ndp-wastes-little-time-connecting-return-of-duffy-trial-to-campaign-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP wastes little time connecting return of Duffy trial to campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25819\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25819\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Mulcair (Screengrab from Canucks Politics)\" width=\"650\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair.jpg 650w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Mulcair (Screengrab from Canucks Politics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The NDP is wasting no time in using the return of Mike Duffy as political leverage against the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper&#8217;s former chief of staff, arrived today to testify at Duffy&#8217;s trial, the New Democrats said their point man on ethics, Charlie Angus, would be on hand at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>With NDP Leader Tom Mulcair campaigning in Quebec, Angus intends to discuss Wright&#8217;s initial testimony and promote an NDP plan to fight corruption in the upper house.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Senate scandal, Angus has been a gadfly to Harper, who was scheduled to attend a campaign event today in B.C. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, is at an event in Regina.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zoloft online <a href=\"https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/zoloft.html\">https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/zoloft.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Mulcair also raised the Duffy affair during a morning appearance in Levis, Que.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy phenergan online <a href=\"https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/phenergan.html\">https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/phenergan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He says there is more at stake than just Wright and the $90,000 he gave Duffy to repay questioned expenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nigel Wright may be testifying, but it&#8217;s Stephen Harper who is on trial here,&#8221; Mulcair said, calling the Duffy scandal part of a larger pattern.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy abilify online <a href=\"https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/abilify.html\">https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/abilify.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He said the Conservatives have been convicted of wrongdoing in the last three elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a record like this, Canadians can&#8217;t let Stephen Harper get away with it again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The NDP is wasting no time in using the return of Mike Duffy as political leverage against the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58937","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=58937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286302,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58937\/revisions\/286302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}