As controversy swirls around the RCMP, the Liberal government and allegations of interference in the investigation of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history, missing RCMP documentation is the latest development to take centre stage.
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Notes from that meeting, released this week by the public inquiry now reviewing the tragedy, show it included RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and, from the Nova Scotia side, Assistant Commissioner Lee Bergerman, the province’s commanding officer; Supt. Darren Campbell; and strategic communications director Lia Scanlan.
At the time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was in the process of pushing through an order-in-council that would ban the sale of 1,500 models of assault-style firearms. “That is 100 per cent Minister Blair and the Prime Minister,” she said. “And we have a commissioner that does not push back.”The notes from that conference seem to indicate that Lucki was willing to interfere with RCMP operations — the investigation of the mass shooting — to advance a gun-control agenda championed by the Prime Minister’s Office and by the public safety minister at the time, Blair.
In 2020, she drew criticism for saying she had struggled over the definition of systemic racism and its existence in her police force. Shortly thereafter, she changed tack and acknowledged that systemic racism was indeed present in the RCMP, drawing the ire of some members. Campbell was in the habit of writing the date in large numbers across the page in his notes like this: 2020-04-27.
“The Commission sought an explanation from the Department of Justice about why four pages were missing from the original disclosure of Supt. Campbell’s notes,” the Mass Casualty Commission’s investigations director, Barbara McLean, said in a statement Friday.
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