Norman affair looks a lot like Duffy trial, and that’s bad for Trudeau

Sen. Mike Duffy was acquitted, but the Harper government took a hit, having an unpleasant picture of its operating culture put on display just before an election. The Liberals now await a similar fate.

The former second-in-command of Canada’s military, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, left, is set to go on trial starting in August 2019, while Senator Mike Duffy, right, was before the courts in the lead-up to the 2015 election and later acquitted. The Hill Times file photograph and by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

October 24, 2018

OTTAWA—The lead-in and trial of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, accused of leaking cabinet secrets related to a major naval procurement, could be the 2019 version of the Duffy trial. Political twists can be cruel. The Duffy trial enlivened Liberal souls. The Norman court case may suck those same souls a...

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