Norman’s lawyers claim Scott Brison, a Nova Scotia MP, is close to Atlantic Canada’s wealthy and powerful Irving family. Their shipbuilding firm had submitted its own proposal to provide a supply ship, which the Conservative government had rejected in favour of Davie’s bid. “It will be the defence’s position that Minister Brison was behind the effort to delay and potentially terminate the Davie agreement,” the documents state.
The application names for the first time a federal government employee whom Norman’s lawyers allege to be the true source of leaked cabinet documents. That employee, Matthew Matchett, has not been charged with any offence and the allegation has not been proven in court. Postmedia was unable to reach Matchett for comment, and he has not responded to previous phone calls and emails seeking comment.
But the application claims it was Matchett, then a civil servant with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, who first leaked the cabinet documents to a lobbyist, who in turn passed them on to Davie.
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