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March 26th, 2019, 06:23 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
Fed Issue - Public interest in Mark Norman case is growing and C-68 (Land version)
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ase-is-growing
“Mark Norman is a personal hero of mine,” General Rick Hillier said over the weekend at the Manning Conference in Ottawa. “I would stand by him anytime.”
It all says a lot.
That Hillier, the retired general and former Chief of the Defence Staff, would say this in the first place. That foreign policy expert Shuvaloy Majumdar, who was leading the Q&A, would choose to make this the first issue he put to Hillier on stage. And that, when I posted these words to social media, they took off like wildfire.
People have a lot to say about the Vice Admiral Mark Norman case. And public interest is only growing.
The saga, in a nutshell, is that in late 2015 a media report revealed the leaked news that the new Liberal government was planning to back away from a deal for a supply ship with Davie Shipbuilding that was almost complete.
Norman, the head of the navy at the time, was first suspended without explanation in January 2017. More than a year later he was charged with one count of breach of trust for allegedly leaking the news of the deal.
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The military determined it would not assist with Norman’s legal bills even though other individuals have qualified for support in the past.
As more people become aware of the facts of the case, the outrage across the country grows. Why is Norman facing what’s believed to be the first ever charge related to leaking to the media when we know such leaks happen all of the time? Why was a senior military figure left suspended without explanation for a year? Why are they sticking him with the full bill?
First it was your guns, now it’s your land
http://cherylgallant.com/blog/2019/0...its-your-land/
Like the original Bill C-68, the current Bill seeks to take away the rights of private property owners. It reverses the changes our Conservative government brought in when we amended the so-called “Harmful Alteration Disruption or Destruction” of fish habitat (the HADD provision) in the Federal Fisheries Act.
Last edited by mosquito; March 26th, 2019 at 06:29 PM.
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March 26th, 2019 06:23 PM
# ADS
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March 26th, 2019, 07:43 PM
#2
The plot thickens. SNC-Lavalin might be small potatoes compared to this. Now,I wonder why the media isn't all over this (besides the Sun)?
If a tree falls on your ex in the woods and nobody hears it,you should probably still get rid of your chainsaw. Just sayin'....
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March 26th, 2019, 07:49 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
Originally Posted by
trimmer21
The plot thickens. SNC-Lavalin might be small potatoes compared to this. Now,I wonder why the media isn't all over this (besides the Sun)?
https://www.therebel.media/trudeau-m...h-conservative
Trudeau sets up a $595 million slush fund for journalists — but only the ones he “trusts.”
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March 26th, 2019, 09:46 PM
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If the Norman case hits the courts before the election the liberals could get kicked to the wilderness like they did with ADSCAM. Scott Brison will no doubt be the one to explain most of this pending scandal, now that he’s jumped ship like a rat.
I’m suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog who doesn't like a person.
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March 27th, 2019, 08:23 PM
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Let's face it the general public mostly doesn't care about this issue except those who have served.
Those with political motives will use it if they think it will help them.
Both the PC's and Liberals have shown they are willing to treat the military with little respect until it suits them.
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Living proof that "beer builds better bellies".
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March 29th, 2019, 09:52 PM
#6
Has too much time on their hands
Talk about openness.... NOT
Feds defend release of completely blacked out 60-page memo on Mark Norman case
https://globalnews.ca/news/5113222/j...=%40globalnews
The federal government is defending its refusal to disclose the contents of a 60-page memo the country’s top bureaucrat sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about Vice-Admiral Mark Norman.
In a statement Friday, the Department of Justice said the memo sent by Michael Wernick, clerk of the Privy Council, to Trudeau last October was completely blacked out by government lawyers.
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Norman has denied any wrongdoing and his politically charged trial is scheduled to start in August and run through much of the fall federal election.
Norman’s legal team has been fighting since October for access to thousands of internal government documents they say will prove the suspended military officer’s innocence and show that the government interfered in his case.
Subpoenas were issued last month for internal communications from senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council Office about the case, including emails, BlackBerry messages and other records.
Any bets there will be an email server accident or something? (Think Clinton, Wynne (repeatedly)....)
Last edited by mosquito; March 29th, 2019 at 09:55 PM.
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May 3rd, 2019, 06:23 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
Interesting....
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.4407086
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberal-mp-andrew-leslie-set-to-testify-against-feds-at-mark-norman-trial-sources-1.4406831
Liberal MP Andrew Leslie set to testify against feds at Mark Norman trial
Former star candidate and now outgoing Liberal MP Andrew Leslie is on the witness list to testify if called, against the government on behalf of suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in the high-profile case about the alleged leak of cabinet documents, CTV News has learned.
Leslie, who represents the Ottawa riding of Orleans and was previously a lieutenant-general in Canadian military, would not comment. But sources tell CTV News that he informed the Prime Minister's Office more than a year ago that he would testify on behalf of Norman. Sources confirm that he is listed on the defence witness list.
Last edited by mosquito; May 3rd, 2019 at 06:38 PM.
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May 7th, 2019, 11:16 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
Coverups .... 60 page document to Trudeau completely blacked out... 
https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...box=1557276104
"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.
Citing sources, the broadcaster reported that Leslie informed the Prime Minister’s Office more than a year ago that he would testify on behalf of Norman. It was unclear in what capacity he would take the stand.
The case has been rife with suspicions of political interference.
Henein has argued the government has lagged on providing records the defence requires to make its case. In March she said she had not seen “a single document,” she said, after her request in October for communications between the Privy Council Office and Prime Minister’s Office on the topic of Norman, and notes relied upon during witness interviews in the RCMP investigation of Norman.
Some of the documentation that was offered was “completely and utterly useless,” she said, detailing PCO lawyer Paul Shuttle’s submission of an inch-thick pile of records that are already public, such as the government’s access-to-information manual. “How is that possibly responsive to the request?” Ontario Court Judge Heather Perkins-McVey quipped.
Among the documents the defence was seeking was a 60-page memo from then Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick to Trudeau that had been entirely blacked out."
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May 8th, 2019, 10:40 AM
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Last nights Nat. News' all charges are being dropped against Mark Norman .
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May 8th, 2019, 10:48 AM
#10
Well, we wouldn’t want the truth to be uncovered in court right before Dips**t calls an election would we ??
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