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OTTAWA — Lawyers for Vice-Admiral Mark Norman are zeroing in on five top government officials — including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former top aide Gerald Butts — as they prepare a motion to have the criminal case tossed out of court next month.

On Friday, Norman’s lawyer read out a list of priority people whose records need to be produced ahead of the abuse-of-process motion, scheduled to be heard starting March 25.

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Those five people are Trudeau himself; Butts, who was Trudeau’s principal secretary until resigning earlier this week; Katie Telford, Trudeau’s chief of staff; Michael Wernick, the clerk of the privy council; and Zita Astravas, the former issues manager in the Prime Minister’s Office, and now chief of staff to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.

“Those are high priority, in my respectful submission, and should be relatively easy to get through if (the Department of Justice) would provide it to the court to review,” Henein said.