OTTAWA - CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Field Producer Philip Ling has attended every single sitting of the Mike Duffy trial since it began, listening to countless hours of arguments and testimony.

Here’s a breakdown of what he’s seen:

  • More than 1 year since the trial started on April 7, 2015.
  • 64 days of court sittings (including today).
  • 54 Crown witnesses.
  • 1 Defence witness: Mike Duffy himself.
  • 8 days of testimony from Mike Duffy – the longest for anyone in the witness box.
  • 7 days of testimony from Nicole Proulx, the Senate's top financial official at the time of Duffy’s alleged crimes.
  • 3 former Prime Minister’s Office staffers who served as Crown witnesses: Nigel Wright, Benjamin Perrin and Chris Woodcock.
  • 18 days of questions to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper about Mike Duffy by reporters during last year’s election campaign.
  • 7 current or former Conservative MPs who testified: John Duncan, Ron Cannan, Barry Devolin, Dean Del Mastro, Cathy McLeod, Andrew Saxton and Gary Lunn.
  • 1 senator -- other than Duffy – who testified: Sen. George Furey.
  • 1 F-bomb dropped during the trial, as Mark Bourrie read aloud Internet comments written about Duffy. (Although Donald Bayne did quote Bourrie’s testimony later in the trial, so that might be two F-bombs dropped).
  • 1 bible verse: Matthew 6:3, quoted by Nigel Wright.
  • 3 times Justice Charles Vaillancourt stopped and scrummed with reporters.
  • 3 rulings Vaillancourt already made within this trial before Day 64: on admissibility of a document, on parliamentary privilege, and on admissibility of expert evidence.
  • 112 separate numbered trial exhibits, totalling literally tens of thousands of pages.
  • 2 days it took for the Crown and Defence to make their oral closing arguments.
  • 84 pages written in the closing arguments by the Crown, compared to 408 pages by the Defence.
  • 2 months from the time closing arguments concluded (February 23, 2016) to today’s ruling.
  • 4 hours 3 minutes it took for Vaillancourt to read his judgment, clearing Duffy of all criminal charges.
  • 308 pages in the full text of Vaillancourt’s judgment.