London mayor Joe Fontana will have his day in court.
May 26, 2014 has been slated as the first day of his fraud case.
As a former MP, Fontana is accused of using taxpayer money to help pay for his son’s wedding reception in June of 2005.
He was charged by the RCMP in November of 2012 with fraud under $5,000, uttering a forged document and breach of trust.
The trial is expected to last three to four days and will be heard by an out-of-town judge.
"I would be pleased with local judges here. But the courts have determined that someone from outside this jurisdiction would be better," says Fontana's lawyer Gord Cudmore.
Cudmore elected to have the trial by judge alone and not a jury.
