Mr. Speaker, we now have postcards from the unaccountable. The SS Duffy has run aground. In January 2012, Conservative Senator Mike Duffy tried to claim expenses for Senate business while on a Caribbean cruise, expenses he repaid only after he got caught.
Instead of taking responsibility for his Senate appointment, the Prime Minister simply found the first lifeboat he could and is now rowing away from this ethical disaster as fast as he can.
Defending their cheating senators is the height of Conservative and Liberal hypocrisy. Neither the Conservatives nor the Liberals have shown an ounce of contrition for their senators' actions. While the Liberals and Conservatives continue to defend the indefensible, New Democrats will always put constituents first, fight these spending abuses and hold these undemocratic and unaccountable Conservative and Liberal senators to account.
New Democrats want this to be the last Senate scandal, so in 2015, let us send the Conservatives off packing on their own cruise on the SS Duffy.