Top admiral leaked cabinet secrets to help ensure ship contract: RCMP
Posted April 26, 2017 9:29 am.
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OTTAWA, ON. (NEWS 1130) – New court documents have been unsealed in the case of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, the Canadian military’s second in command who was abruptly suspended from his job back in January.
Mounties believe he leaked secrets from a Trudeau government cabinet meeting. The heavily censored documents spell out the allegations being made against Norman.
The RCMP believe he had used his position to provide secret cabinet information to the chief executive of federal fleet services, the company in charge of a tentative project to provide a supply vessel for the navy.
The Liberal government had decided in a November cabinet meeting to delay the project, and the RCMP believe Norman leaked that information in order to pressure cabinet to approve the $700 million contract.
Mounties had been investigating for months of how details of that meeting were passed to defence lobbyists and the media.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
