It may be hard to remember, but the standards for a political scandal in Canada were once so low that it could become a term-defying disgrace for a member of the prime minister’s office to personally cover the spending overruns of a wayward senator. That’s what Nigel Wright, chief of staff to then prime minister Stephen Harper, did in 2013 when he personally paid off $90,000 worth of expenses charged by then Conservative-appointed senator Mike Duffy. Wright, who lost his job over the matter, just died at age 62 of unspecified causes.
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