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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Canadian Senator</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 2, 2009 – May 27, 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Nominated by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Harper" title="Stephen Harper">Stephen Harper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Appointed by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Micha%C3%ABlle_Jean" title="Michaëlle Jean">Michaëlle Jean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jane_MacAdam" title="Jane MacAdam">Jane MacAdam</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Michael Dennis Duffy</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1946-05-27</span>) </span>May 27, 1946<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 78)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Charlottetown" title="Charlottetown">Charlottetown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Senators_Group" title="Independent Senators Group">Independent Senators Group</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Non-affiliated</a> (2013–2016)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative</a> (2009–2013)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian senator">Canadian senator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canadian_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian television">Canadian television</a> journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house in 2008, he was the <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> editor for <a href="/wiki/CTV_News_Channel_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="CTV News Channel (Canada)">CTV News Channel</a>. Upon turning 75 on May 27, 2021, Duffy retired from the senate due to mandatory retirement rules.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Duffy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mike Duffy was born in <a href="/wiki/Charlottetown" title="Charlottetown">Charlottetown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a> to Lillian and Wilfrid Duffy. He is a grandson of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gavan_Duffy_(Canadian_politician)" title="Charles Gavan Duffy (Canadian politician)">Charles Gavan Duffy</a>, a PEI <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Prince_Edward_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island">Liberal</a> MLA and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_of_Prince_Edward_Island" title="Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island">Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-macleans.ca_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macleans.ca-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Duffy studied humanities at <a href="/wiki/Saint_Dunstan%27s_University" title="Saint Dunstan's University">St. Dunstan's College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-macleans.ca_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macleans.ca-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div 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message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Duffy became a <a href="/wiki/Ham_radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Ham radio">ham radio</a> operator at the age of 16 and began his career as a teen disc jockey at <a href="/wiki/CBCT_(TV)" class="mw-redirect" title="CBCT (TV)">CFCY-TV</a>. He moved to print journalism by working with <i><a href="/wiki/Charlottetown_Guardian" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlottetown Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in Charlottetown. In 1965, he served as news director at <a href="/wiki/CKDH-FM" title="CKDH-FM">CKDH-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Amherst,_Nova_Scotia" title="Amherst, Nova Scotia">Amherst, Nova Scotia</a> before heading to <a href="/wiki/CFCF-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="CFCF-TV">CFCF</a> in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> as a lineup and assignment editor in 1969. In 1971, he joined <a href="/wiki/CFRA_(AM)" class="mw-redirect" title="CFRA (AM)">CFRA</a> radio in <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> as a political reporter. </p><p>Duffy joined <a href="/wiki/CBC_Radio_One" title="CBC Radio One">CBC radio</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Hill" title="Parliament Hill">Parliament Hill</a> bureau in 1974, and became a reporter for the flagship television newscast <i><a href="/wiki/CBC_News:_The_National" class="mw-redirect" title="CBC News: The National">The National</a></i> in 1977. He became the lead CBC television reporter on Parliament Hill and covered the elections and most of the important federal stories of the Trudeau, Clark and Mulroney governments. Primarily known for his work as an Ottawa journalist, he was considered a foreign correspondent. He covered the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon" title="Fall of Saigon">fall of South Vietnam</a> in April 1975 and was one of the last journalists to leave before the arrival of North Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong insurgents. </p><p>In 1988, Duffy joined <a href="/wiki/Baton_Broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Baton Broadcasting">Baton Broadcasting</a> as the first host of its Sunday morning news program <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Edition_(Canadian_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Edition (Canadian TV series)">Sunday Edition</a></i> based in Ottawa. When that series ended in 1999, Duffy moved to his role as a show host and interviewer with <a href="/wiki/CTV_News_Channel_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="CTV News Channel (Canada)">CTV Newsnet</a> (now the CTV News Channel). Long known as an "Ottawa insider", he was able to get many elected officials to appear on his programs. Duffy hosted two programs on CTV Newsnet, <i>Countdown with Mike Duffy</i> and <i>Mike Duffy Live</i>, which was broadcast in the supper hour news slot. Duffy was also a popular speaker at conferences, annual meetings and other events across Canada and, writer <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Cameron" title="Stevie Cameron">Stevie Cameron</a> noted in her 1990 book <i>Ottawa Inside Out</i>, was probably the most-recognized journalist on Parliament Hill. </p><p>On May 27, 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Broadcast_Standards_Council" title="Canadian Broadcast Standards Council">Canadian Broadcast Standards Council</a> ruled Duffy violated Canadian broadcasting codes during the <a href="/wiki/2008_Canadian_federal_election" title="2008 Canadian federal election">2008 Canadian federal election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It concluded that Duffy's decision to re-broadcast an earlier <a href="/wiki/CTV_Atlantic" title="CTV Atlantic">ATV</a> Halifax broadcast of ‘false starts’ of an interview with then-Liberal leader <a href="/wiki/Stephane_Dion" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephane Dion">Stephane Dion</a> “was not fair, balanced, or even handed.”<sup id="cite_ref-cbsc.ca_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsc.ca-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Panel also concluded that, during the same broadcast, Duffy “significantly misrepresented the view of one of the three members of his Panel...Liberal MP <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Regan" title="Geoff Regan">Geoff Regan</a>.”<sup id="cite_ref-cbsc.ca_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsc.ca-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The panel thus concluded “that the consistent misrepresentation by host Mike Duffy of the MP’s point of view constituted an unfair and improper presentation of opinion or comment contrary to clause 6 of the CAB Code of Ethics."<sup id="cite_ref-cbsc.ca_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsc.ca-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Duffy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1986, he won an <a href="/wiki/ACTRA_Award" title="ACTRA Award">ACTRA Award</a> for live television reporting, for his coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1985_Turkish_embassy_attack_in_Ottawa" title="1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa">1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Revolutionary_Army" title="Armenian Revolutionary Army">Armenian Revolutionary Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CCFbio_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CCFbio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1994, Duffy was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Association_of_Broadcasters" title="Canadian Association of Broadcasters">Canadian Association of Broadcasters</a> Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-CCFbio_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CCFbio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Duffy has received honorary degrees from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Prince_Edward_Island" title="University of Prince Edward Island">University of Prince Edward Island</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier_University" title="Wilfrid Laurier University">Wilfrid Laurier University</a> and from <a href="/wiki/Niagara_University" title="Niagara University">Niagara University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Niagara_Falls,_New_York" title="Niagara Falls, New York">Niagara Falls, New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pm_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pm-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has been a visiting fellow at <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Durham,_North_Carolina" title="Durham, North Carolina">Durham, North Carolina</a>, and has been twice nominated for the "best in the business" award by the <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Journalism_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Journalism Review">Washington Journalism Review</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-pm_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pm-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Jubilee_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Jubilee Medal">Golden Jubilee Medal</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor General of Canada</a> on behalf of <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada" title="Monarchy of Canada">Queen Elizabeth II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gg_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gg-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Duffy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On December 22, 2008, Duffy was named a <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a> representative to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Harper" title="Stephen Harper">Stephen Harper</a>, sitting as a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pm_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pm-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He subsequently retired as a TV journalist at the end of 2008. He was introduced to the Senate on 26 January 2009 immediately prior to the <a href="/wiki/Speech_from_the_Throne" class="mw-redirect" title="Speech from the Throne">Speech from the Throne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expenses_controversy">Expenses controversy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Duffy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Expenses controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Senate_expenses_scandal" title="Canadian Senate expenses scandal">Canadian Senate expenses scandal</a></div> <p>In 2012, Duffy was accused by the media and Senate of improperly claiming <a href="/wiki/Primary_residence" title="Primary residence">primary residency</a> outside of Ottawa in order to claim living expenses for time working in Ottawa. Three other senators, with different fact cases, were also accused of filing false expenses.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 28, 2013, the Senate Committee on the Internal Economy announced that Duffy, <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Wallin" title="Pamela Wallin">Pamela Wallin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mac_Harb" title="Mac Harb">Mac Harb</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Brazeau" title="Patrick Brazeau">Patrick Brazeau</a> would be subject to a <a href="/wiki/Forensic_audit" class="mw-redirect" title="Forensic audit">forensic audit</a> to determine appropriateness of their expense claims.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After several weeks of negative publicity, Duffy, despite believing he was entitled to claim the PEI residence,<sup id="cite_ref-canlii.org_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-canlii.org-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> volunteered to pay back the expenses he had claimed for his Ottawa residence.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prime Minister Harper's Chief of Staff, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_S._Wright" title="Nigel S. Wright">Nigel Wright</a> wrote a personal cheque to Duffy for $90,172 to cover past residency expenses claimed as part of an agreement Duffy made with the Prime Minister's Office.<sup id="cite_ref-CBC20150515_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBC20150515-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-canlii.org_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-canlii.org-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duffy then repaid the Government of Canada $90,172 in March 2013. Duffy resigned from the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative</a> caucus on May 16, 2013, and became an independent senator.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 5, 2013 the Senate voted to suspend Duffy and two other senators.<sup id="cite_ref-edmontonjournal.com_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edmontonjournal.com-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in his trial decision exonerating Duffy in 2016, Ontario Superior Court Judge Charles Vaillancourt said Duffy had not falsely claimed living expenses. The judge said Duffy had no choice in the matter, as he had been appointed to represent Prince Edward Island in the Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-canlii.org_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-canlii.org-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Acquittal_on_criminal_charges">Acquittal on criminal charges</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Duffy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Acquittal on criminal charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On July 17, 2014, Duffy was charged by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police" title="Royal Canadian Mounted Police">Royal Canadian Mounted Police</a> with 31 offences.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duffy was acquitted of all charges on April 21, 2016. Ontario Court Justice Charles Vaillancourt ruled: "Mr. Neubauer (the Crown prosecutor) stated that Senator Duffy’s actions were driven by deceit, manipulations and carried out in a clandestine manner representing a serious and marked standard expected of a person in Senator Duffy’s position of trust. I find that if one were to substitute the PMO, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_S._Wright" title="Nigel S. Wright">Nigel Wright</a> and others for Senator Duffy in the aforementioned sentence that you would have a more accurate statement." The judge ruled Duffy had no choice but to list his Prince Edward Island home as his principal residence, as he had been appointed a senator from that province and was constitutionally required to be resident there. Duffy's "free will" had been "overwhelmed" and he had "capitulated" as a result of the PMO's -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office, that is, -- "threatening efforts," the judge said. The Superior Court judge said Duffy had been pressured by senior members of the Prime Minister's staff to admit to improper expense accounts when they were, in fact, legitimate, adding "the real deceit came from Harper's office."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Fife" title="Robert Fife">Robert Fife</a>, now the <i>Globe and Mail'</i>s Ottawa bureau chief, won an award for his reporting on the so-called "Senate scandal." On the day Sen. Duffy was acquitted, Fife claimed he had been repeatedly misled by the Harper PMO. He went on to declare the scandal was a "manipulative hoax" by Nigel Wright foisted on the Canadian public. "From the beginning when I broke that story on the $90,000. The Prime Minister’s Office every step of the way lied to me, they lied to Canadians. And inch by inch we were able to scale back and find out one lie after another, one lie after another. And then in the summertime when Nigel Wright and the other key lieutenants in the Prime Minister’s Office were put on the stand, we saw just how this manipulative hoax was put on the Canadian public."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duffy immediately resumed his seat in the Senate and sat as an independent until his retirement. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Civil_lawsuit">Civil lawsuit</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Duffy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Civil lawsuit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On August 24, 2017, Duffy filed a lawsuit against the Senate and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police" title="Royal Canadian Mounted Police">Royal Canadian Mounted Police</a> seeking damages of <span style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">CA$</a>8 million</span>. Duffy alleged the RCMP was liable for negligent investigation. He accused the Senate of abuse of process and breaching its duty to provide him with a fair hearing before suspending him. Duffy accused the Senate of acting under media pressure and adding to stress that took a heavy toll on his health.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2018, the Ontario Superior Court dismissed Duffy's lawsuit against the Senate. The decision by Justice Sally Gomery included this statement: "Allowing a court to revisit the Senate's decisions at issue here would interfere with the Senate's ability to function as an independent legislative body, equal to other branches of government". Duffy's suit against the RCMP, based on alleged negligence in their investigation, was not affected by this decision.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2019, Duffy filed an appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His appeal was ultimately unsuccessful. 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