Thinking more about this...
Literally the first thing I was taught when I took a course in crisis management is that you should always come clean and accept responsibility. The public is far more likely to be forgiving if you take ownership for your misdeeds than they are if you're caught trying to cover them up. Surely every senior staffer in the PMO (and Harper himself) must know this.
So why did Wright et al. go to the trouble of the $90,000 cheque? Once it was publicly revealed that the senators had been abusing their expense accounts, why not just make them pay the money back? If Duffy didn't have $90k available immediately, couldn't the government have garnished his wages over several months/years until his debt had been repaid (with interest) instead of Wright giving -- or loaning? -- him the money outright? What am I missing here?
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