Lawyers for Vice-Admiral Mark Norman have taken aim at a key federal cabinet minister with new allegations about Treasury Board President Scott Brison’s links to the powerful Irving family and Brison’s role in the government’s plan to delay a supply-ship contract awarded to an Irving rival.
In court documents released Friday, Norman’s legal team alleges that witnesses have contradicted Brison’s claim a leak of information about a plan to delay the contract with Davie Shipbuilding hurt the government’s ability to review the deal. Norman’s lawyers are also challenging Brison’s claim that an ad hoc government committee meeting convened at the time was examining the integrity of the contracting process.
Norman’s lawyers have requested through the court any communications between Brison and Irving in November 2015. Henein argues that such a request is valid “given Minister Brison’s inconsistent accounts of his handling of the Irving letter and his close relationship with the Irving family.”
“Lobbying records show that Minister Brison has been lobbied by Jim Irving on numerous occasions since he became Minister,” Henein claimed.
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