1. Stephen Harper was NOT the great crusader against Duffy's "questionable expenses" - in fact, he was the cause of them.

2. Most of Duffy's dubious expenses arose from his claim that he was resident in PEI.  That claim came from nobody else than Stephen Harper.

3. Ben Perrin, Special Adviser and Legal Counsel to the PM, said - under oath - Harper didn't want to listen to his advice on the definition of "resident" for a Senator, and chose Duffy based on a definition that clearly made no sense. 

4.  As time went by, the PMO and the Prime Minister himself put considerable pressure on Duffy to maintain the illusion that PEI was his residence. According to Ben Perrin, Harper "shut down the discussion." 

5. If you had actually read the decision, you'd see why the judge wrote: "I find based on all of the evidence that Senator Duffy was forced into accepting Nigel Wright’s funds so that the government could rid itself of an embarrassing political fiasco that just was not going away."