Will Duffy trial compel Conservatives to move on overdue accountability reforms?

The question is whether the Conservatives are ready to respond with new accountability measures to ‘put in the window,’ as several political observers put it, if they’re deemed to be necessary following any new revelations from the Duffy trial, or if they can still fall back on the Federal Accountability Act’s provisions from 2006.

As questions about the Conservative government’s ethics and accountability resurface in the Mike Duffy trial, political observers are split on whether it will be enough for the government to rest on its laurels or whether long-overdue amendments to key accountability ref...

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