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The case of Vice Admiral Mark Norman will be back in court Tuesday as lawyers sort out how to move forward with his upcoming trial. But if the timelines on which previous such legal battles unfolded are any indication, the proceedings will likely get underway in earnest in 2019, and could even extend through that fall’s federal election.

And that might mean the Liberals would spend an election year dealing with controversial or embarrassing revelations, as the trial of the suspended second-in-command of the Canadian Forces is expected to focus on the government’s problem-plagued shipbuilding program and allegations of political interference in a project to convert a commercial vessel into a navy supply ship.

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The RCMP charged Norman in March with one count of breach of trust in relation to the alleged leak of information in the fall of 2015 about the then newly-elected Liberal government’s plan to derail the supply ship project. Norman has said he has done nothing wrong and is looking forward to clearing his name.