The spectre of political interference linking SNC-Lavalin to the Norman trial

By Murray Brewster · CBC News

Wilson-Raybould brought up Norman in her secretly-taped conversation, which could factor into his trial

Left: Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Right: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Norman's legal team is alleging political interference in his case. (Adrian Wyld, Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

They're two sides of the same political and judicial coin: SNC-Lavalin and the Mark Norman trial.

The all-consuming, breathless political drama over the SNC Lavalin scandal has rocked the Liberal government to its foundations. The grinding courtroom fight in the breach-of-trust case case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, the military's former second-in-command, is somewhat less flashy, but still high-profile.

What links them — and, to a lesser degree, the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou — is the fear that politics can trump prosecutorial independence.

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