Opinion: His lawyers have always maintained that, as they put it in a third-party records application last fall, ‘Vice-Admiral Norman is not the right person standing trial’
The federal government is expected to pull the plug on its prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman for alleged breach of trust, the National Post has learned.
The tip-off was an unusual alert from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada sent late Tuesday to reporters who have been following the case. That firm, Chantier Davie, had been selected by the former Stephen Harper government to provide a badly needed supply ship – basically a floating gas station – in a sole-source contract in the fall of 2015.
The decision, and the $89-million penalty taxpayers would incur if the deal was cancelled, made headlines across the country. In fact, only this March, RCMP charged Matthew Matchett, a public servant, with breach of trust in connection with the same alleged leak. As well, they were poised to bring an abuse of process motion later this month or early in June. That motion was expected to level allegations of political interference and obstruction of subpoena requests for documents as reasons for the case to be dismissed before it gets to trial.Liberal MP and former army commander Andrew Leslie offered to be a witness for Norman at his trial, according to a CTV News report last week.
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