RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said that part of her frustration with the Nova Scotia division was because she was told that information about the firearms used would be released during a public briefing
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says there was poor communication between her office and Nova Scotia Mounties in the days following the shooting spree that left 22 people dead in April 2020.
Then-Supt. Darren Campbell wrote in his notes about the April 28 meeting that Lucki told Nova Scotia officials she promised the federal government that police would release the information. “I remember looking up at a screen and seeing 22 faces on the screen,” she said, adding that the RCMP were reporting a different number of victims at the time.Meanwhile, Blair told MPs on the committee the government decided after the shooting spree to schedule May 1, 2020, as the date to announce its ban of some 1,500 models of assault-style firearms.
Blair told the committee he believes there is “overwhelming support” among Canadians for the firearms ban, and he didn’t think the government needed to connect it to the shootings to justify its decision.Campbell’s handwritten notes outline the April 28, 2020, meeting with Lucki and several others from the RCMP’s national headquarters.
“The commissioner then said that we didn’t understand, that this was tied to pending gun control legislation that would make officers and public safer.”