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In January 2016, Defence Watch reported that James Cudmore, then a well-known CBC TV journalist who covered defence and government, had gone to work for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. His job was as a “senior policy advisor.”

Now Cudmore is moving on.

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Although he is still on the job in Sajjan’s office, he will be moving to the Office of the Minister of Democratic Institutions. Sajjan’s former press secretary, Jordan Owens, is already at that office as director of communications.

There are no details yet on what Cudmore might be doing at Democratic Institutions or when he will start there.

Cudmore is a central figure in the ongoing legal battle facing Vice Admiral Mark Norman. But the move hasn’t anything to do with that issue. Cudmore wants to spend more time with his family, something that is difficult to do at the DND most of the times.

Vice Admiral Mark Norman was recently charged by the RCMP in relation to the alleged leak of information about a Liberal government plan to derail a project to provide the Royal Canadian Navy with a new supply ship.