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OTTAWA — Ezra Levant and Sen. Mike Duffy have appeared on each other’s talk shows over the years — now they’ll both be featured in one of the year’s most-watched courtroom dramas.

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Levant, the provocative political commentator formerly of Sun News, has been subpoenaed to testify at Duffy’s upcoming fraud and bribery trial.

Levant confirmed to The Canadian Press that he’s been summoned as a Crown witness for the case that begins in an Ottawa court April 7.

Levant, also a lawyer and columnist, said he wrote “a couple” of speeches for Duffy five or six years ago. He declined to comment on the subject matter of the speeches.

“…Out of respect for the court I don’t propose to give my testimony in advance,” Levant said an email.

Duffy is facing 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. The Mounties described one series of breach of trust charges as relating to “the awarding of consulting contracts over a four-year period, and subsequently using part of the funds from those contracts for personal gain or for expenses which circumvent Senate oversight.”