The RCMP has confirmed that they are looking into those Senate audits to see if criminal charges are warranted, which Liberal Senate leader James Cowan is encouraged about, as he wants to ensure that due process is being followed. Cowan also noted on CTV’s Question Period that one particular sentence was missing from Senator Mike Duffy’s audit – that the Internal Economy committee said that the guidelines were perfectly clear and that the language was “unambiguous” in Senators Mac Harb and Patrick Brazeau’s reports, but somehow not in Duffy’s. In other words, it looks like Senator Tkachuk – who heads the Internal Economy committee – is protecting Duffy, as in two cases they said the very same forms and guidelines were clear and unambiguous. Curious indeed.

Senator Doug Finley, the architect behind many Conservative electoral victories, passed away from cancer at the age of 66 over the weekend. A collection of tributes can be found here. John Ivison offers his own tribute to his fellow Scot and sees something in their shared experiences that made both of them so devoted to this country.

There are questions about the propriety of the Conservatives sending Economic Action Plan™ prerogatives plus surveys designed for the benefit of their voter identification database to public servants using their work email addresses – especially as the ways of getting onto list for such emails seems to be increasingly broad lately.

David Akin notes that if the Liberals win today’s by-election in Labrador, it’ll be the first time they’ve picked up a seat at the ballot box in a decade.

And Conrad Black takes umbrage with the way that the NDP are wrapping Quebec separatist positions in the federalism flag – such as how they are playing along with the separatist mythology around the role of former Chief Justice Bora Laskin and the patriation of the constitution, and how intellectually dishonest that position actually is.