CBC REPORTER BECAME MND POLICY DIRECTOR

  NDP MP Charlie Angus is asking CBC’s ombudsman to review its policy for protecting confidential sources, given the situation around the government’s hire of the journalist at the centre of the criminal case against Vice Admiral Mark Norman.
   CBC reporter James Cudmore wrote stories in the fall of 2015 that contained leaked cabinet confidences, including a crucial story on Nov. 20, 2015, revealing that a cabinet committee had decided to delay a naval project with Quebec-based Davie Shipbuilding.

    On Jan. 12, 2016, weeks after the story was published, Cudmore joined Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s office as a policy adviser. He has since moved to the office of Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould.