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Court documents that have been filed in Ottawa recently continue to shed more light on the case of Vice Admiral Mark Norman.

The RCMP allege Norman, the former head of the navy, championed a supply ship proposal by Davie shipyards in Quebec and provided Davie officials with information about Liberal government plans to delay the deal with the company. The decision on the delay came out of a cabinet committee held in November 2015. Norman didn’t attend the meeting as he was on the east coast at the time.

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Thanks to the recently filed court records by Norman’s lawyer the public now knows that the Privy Council Office conducted its own internal investigation into the alleged leak of information. The Privy Council investigation determined that 73 people knew about the outcome of the meeting of cabinet ministers about the naval supply ship after it concluded.

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The PCO investigation found that there were six separate leaks related to the Ad Hoc Committee alone, including to two separate CBC reporters, Radio-Canada, and the lobbying firm Fleishman & Hillard. But the PCO couldn’t actually figure out who had leaked the information and called in the RCMP.