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A senior Mountie involved in the response to the 2020 mass killings in Nova Scotia says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki didn’t seem to recognize “the importance of maintaining the integrity of an investigation” as he says she pressed him about releasing information about the firearms used in the killings, which could support the federal government’s gun control legislation.
“The commissioner made me feel as if I was stupid, and I didn’t seem to understand the importance of why this information was important to go out—the information specific to the firearms as it was related to the legislation,” RCMP Chief Supt. Darren Campbell said at an Aug. 16 meeting of the House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security.
The committee is currently looking into allegations of political interference in the investigation into the 2020 tragedy.
Notes from Campbell from an April 28, 2020, meeting released by the public inquiry into the killings said that Lucki had scolded RCMP staff at the meeting for not disclosing details about the firearms and that she had made a “promise” to then-public safety minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office that the information would be released. The notes said that “this was tied to pending gun control legislation.”
