Former Conservative senator, longtime politico Hugh Segal dead at 72
TORONTO, Oct.23-- Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate Hugh Segal speaks to party members at the Progressive Conservative leadership candidates speeches to supporters. 1998In 1962, then-prime minister John Diefenbaker visited Hugh Segal's school in Montreal to present the principal with a copy of the newly minted Canadian Bill of Rights.
Never were those qualities more evident than during the 2013 scandal involving allegedly dodgy expense claims made by three Conservative senators: Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau. He tried to remind his fellow Conservatives of their party's proud history defending civil liberties by recounting some of his own storied history with the party:
Segal's appeal landed on deaf ears. Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau were suspended without pay for two years. Duffy was eventually acquitted on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, after which police dropped charges against Brazeau and closed the investigation into Wallin, who was never charged. There were a few other senators "standing on the shore" hoping Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau wouldn't drown "but they weren't going into the water to help you," he added. "Hughie went into the water to help."
"He would never say anything about someone that he wouldn't say to someone" -- perhaps the legacy of his days with mentors like Bill Davis who practised a "kinder, gentler" style of politics, said Wallin. "His service to Canada was truly outstanding, and those of us who worked with him came to love him and will miss him terribly."
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