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Taxpayers may never know how much it cost them to prosecute Vice Admiral Mark Norman or even the number of federal employees involved in presenting the government’s case in court.

Norman’s legal battle started in early 2017 and are now bogged down in a pre-trial hearing where his lawyers have been trying to get federal records they contend are needed to defend the officer against one count of breach of trust.

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The Public Prosecution Service of Canada noted in an email to Postmedia it will not be releasing what it has spent to date compiling the case against the senior navy officer. Nor will it be releasing the final cost either after the prosecution is over. The prosecution service stated it does not track such cases individually.

The prosecution service confirmed it has three lawyers assigned to the Norman case but could not say how many additional staff are working as it “varies at different stages of prosecution,” according to the email.