OTTAWA—A Senate committee has breathed new life into an inquiry into the failed prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, after the Conservative senator behind the probe reversed course and decided not to kill it. Conservative Sen. Jean-Guy Dagenais had indicated that he planned to abandon the study, saying the clock had effectively run out because of the Liberals. But in a surprise turn of events during Monday’s meeting of the Senate defence committee, Dagenais instead successfully lobbied fellow committee members to extend its original June 20 deadline for reporting the results of its study back to the Senate. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWYet committee members were told that the Senate as a whole could also vote to allow the committee to continue the probe, setting the stage for a sharp debate in the coming days. Committee members also heard that neither Norman nor his lawyer, Marie Henein, had yet responded to their invitations to testify about his two-year ordeal, which ended last month.

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 00:56 UTC