Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino declines to say whether Ottawa would Lucki to second term as head of the RCMP after Alberta Justice Minister calls for her ‘immediate’ dismissal
, where Justice Paul Rouleau is reviewing Ottawa’s unprecedented decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end a rash of protests and blockades against pandemic measures.
One of the meetings was chaired by the Prime Minister on Feb. 13, the day before the Emergencies Act was invoked. Her prepared notes for that meeting included her assessment that police had “not yet exhausted all available tools” in existing legislation but she never relayed that at the meeting. The Commissioner later denied that she was under political direction to release firearms information. But, she acknowledged, she felt an imperative to get more information to the public as quickly as possible.
As the Black Lives Matter protests forced a reckoning around the world in 2020, a series of videos appeared to show Mounties using excessive force against Indigenous people, andin Winnipeg, New Brunswick and Nunavut in just three months.
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