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Scott Brison, the veteran Nova Scotia MP and former Treasury Board president who resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet earlier this month, has brought his own lawyer to a hearing in Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s criminal case in a bid to protect his privacy and his reputation.

Brison’s lawyer has entered the hearing so Brison can hand over personal correspondence to the court in response to subpoenas from Norman’s defence team, which seek both official and non-official communications.

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Although the Department of Justice has been coordinating a massive effort to collect subpoenaed documents, Brison declined to disclose his personal emails to the government. Instead, Brison’s lawyer informed the government in December that he preferred to disclose such documents to the court independently.

“Mr. Brison has a privacy interest in the contents of his personal email communications,” said the application for standing filed last week by Peter Mantas of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. “These include both his own records, and those of his constituency office.”