please, Stephen Harper wanted a good bag man for the party...he got that in Mr Duffy. Harper also wanted a senator who could meet the bare minimum requirements regarding appointment from P.E.I. ...he felt Mr Duffy would meet that and Mr Duffy agreed..under pressure of a take it or leave it, but he took it nonetheless because he wanted the appointment. 

every bit of cringe-worthy greed -induced excess based on a nonsensical denial of true longitudinal and latitudinal positioning after that is on Mr Duffy