Hosed: You can speculate on that but that is not good enough for charges to be laid. If the political staffers are doing their job, they make sure they insulate their leader from being connected to these type of things. For example, while many speculated that Stephen Harper must have known about Nigel Wright's $90,000 payment to Mike Duffy, no concrete evidence has emerged to support that speculation. The police, rightfully so, can't lay charges on a likely link or infer that something happened. They need actual real evidence.