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The Senate’s national security and defence voted Tuesday to call Vice Adm. Mark Norman and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan to testify about the legal case against the senior naval officer.

Senators voted 7 to 5 in favour of the motion by Conservative Senator Jean-Guy Dagenais.

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Dagenais’s motion called for the committee to “examine and report on the circumstances that led the RCMP to lay” the criminal charge against Norman.

Norman had been charged with one count of breach of trust after the RCMP alleged he had promoted a plan by Davie Shipbuilding in Quebec to convert a commercial ship, the Asterix, into a naval refuelling and supply vessel. The federal police force also alleged that Norman tipped off Davie in the fall of 2015 that the Liberal government was considering delaying the project which had been set in motion by the previous Conservative government.

The case against Norman collapsed May 8 because of new evidence. The naval officer, who entered a plea of not guilty, always maintained he had done nothing wrong.