OTTAWA — The judge in the case of suspended senator Mike Duffy seems to be getting frustrated with the slow pace of the trial.
Justice Charles Vaillancourt says after 14 days of arguments and testimony, he's only just beginning to see the broad brush strokes of the issues at hand.
And Vaillancourt says he'd like to start moving along and hearing actual evidence.
The comments were prompted by a legal tussle between assistant Crown attorney Jason Neubauer and Duffy's defence lawyer Donald Bayne on the nature of testimony from Senate finance official Nicole Proulx.
Bayne is objecting to what he calls Proulx being asked to provide an opinion or answer hypothetical questions regarding what is or isn't a valid Senate expense.
Neubauer says he's trying to show there were already rules in place long before a new travel expenses policy was enacted in 2012.
Duffy is standing trial on 30 charges of fraud and breach of trust stemming from living and expense laims he filed between 2009 and 2012.
He also faces one count of bribery related to the $90,000 payment made by former Harper chief of staff Nigel Wright to cover Duffy's disallowed expense claims.
