The sentencing of the naval officer at the centre of an international espionage embarrassment is underway in Halifax.
Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, 41, is in a Nova Scotia provincial court for a two-day hearing after pleading guilty in October to breach of trust and passing information to a foreign entity that could harm Canada's interests.
The case of a Canadian in uniform selling a vast horde of secrets to the Russians is unprecedented.
Delisle is the first Canadian charged under the Security of Information Act. That means the judge has no prior cases to help him sentence the former threat assessment officer with a top secret clearance.
Delisle's stint as spy will be scrutinized by security experts in court.
At stake for Delisle is the possibility of a life sentence for attempting to sell Canadian and allied secrets over a four year period.
The wild card at the hearing could be Delisle himself. It's possible that he could take the stand and speak in his own defence.
Since he was arrested in January 2012, he has remained silent and in jail.
Approached Russians
The story began when Delisle walked into the Russian Embassy in Ottawa wearing a red ball cap and civilian clothes. He flashed his Canadian military identification and asked to meet with someone from GRU, the Russian military intelligence.
Delisle was posted to the security unit HMCS Trinity, an intelligence facility at the naval dockyard in Halifax. It tracks vessels entering and exiting Canadian waters via satellites, drones and underwater devices.
There he had access to Stone Ghost, an allied system.
On Thursday, the Crown revealed that Delisle also had access to a Department of National Defence secret system and a computer system dealing with message traffic, a NATO system and Mandrake, a government of Canada secret system.
Delisle had to sign a confidentiality agreement to get access to all these secret data bases, according to the Crown.
In court, Delisle sat quietly, hands in his lap, staring straight ahead, reported CBC's Blair Rhodes.
Delisle is still officially in the navy and drawing pay. The Department of National Defence says that will change once the judge renders his sentence.
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