The admiral’s life has changed, for the better, in mere days. But he’s still owed something beyond an apology — he’s owed an explanation
One could forgive Royal Canadian Navy Vice-Admiral Mark Norman a moment of dizziness. His world has been turned upside down in recent weeks. Or perhaps, better to say right-side up.
The admiral was under suspicion of having leaked confidential cabinet information to a shipbuilding company, Davie, which had a contract to convert a civilian cargo ship into a badly needed naval supply vessel. In 2015, the leaks that came to be blamed on Norman helped Davie lobby the newly elected Liberal government to not cancel the project, which some in cabinet reportedly had pushed to do. When it became public that the Liberals might renege on the deal, they backed down.
The admiral was relieved of duty as vice-chief of the defence staff in 2017, at which point the prime minister made some astonishingly prejudicial statements about the case, including predicting it would result in a trial . A full year later, he was charged with one count of breach of trust.
Since then, the government has said it will pay his hefty legal bills, which it had previously refused to even provide loans for. The military has said he can return to active duty at once. And this week, the House unanimously supported a Conservative motion apologizing to the admiral and his family for the entire ordeal.But he’s still owed something beyond an apology — he’s owed an explanation. All Canadians are. We may be waiting a while on that one.
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