Hugh Segal, former Conservative senator and longtime politico, dead at 72
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.” “Generous of spirit, of time, of heart, of caring. You want to be Hugh’s friend because when you need a friend there just is no one better.”
Mulroney said Segal brought “a cool head in some pretty tense situations” and an unshakable sense of his principles. Mulroney is among those who describe Segal as the proverbial “happy warrior” — an apt description for someone Fox said was so “affable and friendly and genuinely funny” that people often overlooked the “warrior” part of the sobriquet.Article content
About six months before the 2019 election, when Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government was engulfed in a scandal over alleged interference in the justice system to help Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, Segal penned an op-ed warning Conservatives they’d hurt their chances of forming government if they continued blindly opposing every Liberal move and stoking revulsion at alleged government improprieties, rather than offering fresh, positive, nation-building proposals of their own.
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