Fortin sex assault case scheduled for two days in September

OTTAWA - Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin’s sexual assault case will go to trial in September.

Two days have been put aside for the trial throughout a quick, digital courtroom listening to this morning, 5 months after the senior army officer as soon as tasked with overseeing Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination drive was charged.

The Sept. 19-20 trial shall be held in a Gatineau courtroom with no jury after Fortin opted earlier this week for the case to be tried by a Quebec decide with no jury current.

Fortin was charged in August with one rely of sexual assault relationship again to 1988. The cost got here 5 months after he was abruptly faraway from his place on the vaccine marketing campaign because of a police investigation.

The senior officer has pleaded not responsible and waged a battle with the federal government in Federal Court docket for reinstatement to a task just like his earlier place on the Public Well being Company of Canada.

Fortin has accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and different senior members of the federal government of getting turfed him for purely political causes after the Liberals have been accused of not doing sufficient to deal with sexual misconduct within the army.

A Federal Court docket decide tossed out his request for reinstatement in October, however Fortin is interesting.

His lawyer, Natalia Rodriguez, says an attraction regarding his reinstatement is anticipated to go to a panel listening to within the spring.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 28, 2022.