The Privy Council Office has found those emails from former PMO legal advisor Benjamin Perrin after all, despite previously telling the RCMP that they had been deleted.Oops. And yes, they promise to turn them over to the RMCP right away. It’s also probably just a coincidence that the advisory was sent out at 9 PM on a Sunday while the Prime Minister was wowing the crowd at a certain Jewish fundraising dinner as well, right? Meanwhile, Tonda MacCharles reconstructs that fateful February day when Nigel Wright made the decision to repay Duffy and tries to figure out where it all went wrong. CBC finds out what happened to Chris Montgomery, the Senate staffer who objected to the PMO interference with the Duffy audit report.

In reaction to the “Reform Act,” as Michael Chong’s forthcoming bill is being dubbed, Althia Raj heard from NDP MP Linda Duncan, who said that there were greater concerns for Parliament right now than this bill, and that her own party didn’t have these same concerns. (One can almost picture her reading that on a script delivered from a staffer from Thomas Mulcair’s office). Duncan later took to Twitter to claim that she was misquoted and that there are “more critical needs to democratic reform than this bill,” to which Raj transcribed the interview segment to prove that Duncan was not exactly being honest. And if anyone thinks that proportional representation is the more critical need, then they’re kidding themselves because that would actually necessitate far greater party control than the restoration of our system as Chong is (mostly) proposing. Canadian Dissensus looks at some of the issues here.

The RCMP announced that they have arrested a suspect who had obtained classified shipbuilding documents from an Irving Shipyards subcontractor in Toronto, and was attempting to pass them along to China. Apparently he didn’t have the security clearance to access those documents, which is raising more questions about what was so sensitive that the RCMP and CSIS swooped in within a couple of days of being alerted to the problem. It also raises questions of where other leaks might happen given the subcontracting practices that happen in the industry as a whole.

The concerns over the state of 24 Sussex reappeared this weekend, as the Ottawa Citizen obtained emails that detailed the state of deterioration – and yet the Prime Minister refuses to address the mounting problems, despite the fact that the longer the renovations are put off, the worse things get. Because apparently neglect is better optics than actually spending money to fix a national heritage and public asset. Here is the Maclean’s look at some of those problems from a few months ago. Scott Reid suggests one solution to the politics – and class warfare – of the refusal to make the repairs is to designate the official residences as part of the Parliamentary Precinct where they would fall under the purview of the Speaker and Public Works. Paul Wells notes the symbolism, more than the money, that has kept Harper from looking to vacate to make those repairs.

Suspended Senator Patrick Brazeau is telling the RCMP to “bring it on,” if they’re going to charge him with anything. Erm, didn’t Dean Del Mastro offer a similar ultimatum to Elections Canada, and they did bring it?

James Munson takes a closer look at the consensus-based governments in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut that Trudeau seems to admire, and points to the myths of their creation, and the problems inherent in those systems when it comes to holding governments to account. It also comes down to a bigger question for those who romanticise about a Commons full of independent MPs – how can you vote for a policy platform or hold anyone to account for failing to implement it ?

This week, Canada is expected to submit our bid to expand our Arctic seafloor claims before the UN. This after years of work with the Americans, Danish and Russia to map the region, and an undersea mountain range may mean that Canada will have claim over the North Pole itself.

And Maclean’s has named Rob Ford the newsmaker of the year. Considering how much oxygen he’s sucked out of the news cycle on a number of occasions now, it’s probably the correct choice.