When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals),
improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).
Kenney and MacKay defended the honour of their friend, Nigel Wright, who was the PM's former chief of Staff until he gave a $ 90,000 cheque to Sen. Mike Duffy to cover
improperly claimed expenses.
When she lodged a legal complaint that she had never been paid, Pilatus made its own criminal complaint: that she had
improperly claimed $ 2000 in
expenses (which she denied), and she was arrested.