Mr. Speaker, if Canadians needed yet another argument as to why the Senate should be abolished, Senator Mike Duffy just gave them one.
When asked to provide proof of residence in Prince Edward Island, the province that he is supposed to represent in the Senate, he was forced to make a panicked call to the provincial health minister urgently asking for a health card. Now that is what you call deep roots in Prince Edward Island. He no longer even lives there, and yet he has the audacity to claim it as his second place of residence.
The farce that is the Senate, and the money that it wastes, has gone on long enough.
Is the Prime Minister going to continue to endorse such behaviour?