The P.E.I. senator was ultimately acquitted in 2016 of 31 criminal charges in a ruling that slammed the conduct of Harper's office in what was one of the biggest political scandals of his government. Despite Duffy's exoneration, the Senate refused to repay the hundreds of thousands of dollars he lost in pay and pension, court heard.
Duffy now wants $7.8 million in reimbursement and damages from the Senate, RCMP and federal government. However, a lower court in December 2018 sided with the Senate that parliamentary privilege made it immune to lawsuits, prompting Duffy's appeal.
Greenspon told the three-judge panel that immunity — designed to separate parliamentary and executive powers — should not apply in this case. The Senate's actions against Duffy, he said, were carried out on behalf of what he called misconduct in the Prime Minister's Office.
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