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CTV News Channel (décembre 12, 2013)
Television Piece
(English) Federal political parties make good move of imposing ethics rules on political staff, but bad move of gagging them forever

Democracy Watch (décembre 11, 2013)
News Release
(English) Democracy Watch calls on Ethics Commissioner to initiate inquiry into Nigel Wright, Patrick Rogers, Chris Woodcock and Benjamin Perrin intervening in Senate committee’s audit of Senator Mike Duffy

Democracy Watch (décembre 10, 2013)
News Release
(English) Democracy Watch calls on Senate Ethics Officer to initiate inquiries into Senator Duffy’s acceptance of payment from Arthur Hamilton, and into interventions by senators Gerstein and LeBreton in Duffy’s audit

Democracy Watch (décembre 4, 2013)
News Release
(English) Based on evidence available and opinion of the law, Democracy Watch sends letter to RCMP suggesting that Senate scandal investigation should be expanded to cover more people

CTV News Channel (décembre 3, 2013)
Television Piece
(English) A new system is needed to suspend mayors who do things like Rob Ford has, but proposal to empower MPs to remove party leaders go too far, although other empowerment changes are positive — CTV News Channel

CTV News Channel (décembre 2, 2013)
Television Piece
(English) Disclosure to the RCMP of emails from the Prime Minister’s lawyer will likely lead to the investigation broadening to include other people — CTV News Channel

Macleans.ca (novembre 26, 2013)
Website Article
(English) Nigel Wright and others involved in negotiations to pay off Senator Mike Duffy all likely violated anti-bribery measure in Criminal Code

CTV News Channel (novembre 23, 2013)
Television Piece
(English) CTV News Channel interview re: the RCMP’s investigation into the Senate scandal expands into the Prime Minister’s office

Maclean's magazine, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and 9 other media outlets all publishing Canadian Press article (novembre 19, 2013)
Website Article
(English) Mandatory suspensions handed out by ethics commissioner for clear evidence of violations of a new code of conduct a better system than having politicians judge politicians like Rob Ford and senators

CTV News Channel (novembre 19, 2013)
Television Piece
(English) Politicians judging other politicians like Rob Ford and the senators is a bad idea, and instead codes of conducts should be expanded to cover many types of actions, with mandatory penalties handed out by ethics commissioners to to violators — CTV News Channel