RCMP’s Brenda Lucki faces Nova Scotia mass capturing inquiry at present

HALIFAX—The nation’s prime Mountie is predicted to take the stand Tuesday on the inquiry into the worst mass capturing in Canadian historical past, the place she is predicted to face questions in some unspecified time in the future about whether or not she tried to intervene with the Nova Scotia RCMP’s investigation.

Commissioner Brenda Lucki has weathered a storm of controversy over the previous two months over allegations she tried to strain Nova Scotia Mounties to launch particulars of the weapons utilized by the killer forward of federal authorities gun management laws.

These allegations got here to mild in June, when the handwritten notes of Darren Campbell — then the senior N.S. Mountie accountable for the investigation — have been launched by the inquiry.

Components of Campbell’s notes documented a teleconference between the N.S. and the nationwide RCMP within the days instantly following the killings, whereby Campbell wrote that he took a browbeating from Lucki over his choice to not launch data on the weapons.

In line with these notes, Lucki informed the N.S. contingent that she’d promised then-public security minister Invoice Blair and the Prime Minister’s Workplace that these particulars could be launched.

“The commissioner was clearly upset,” Campbell wrote in his notes.

“The commissioner accused us (me) of disrespecting her by not following her directions.”

In a Home of Commons committee investigating these allegations, each Lucki and Blair denied any interference within the N.S. investigation.

On Monday, nevertheless, on the Mass Casualty Fee inquiry into the shootings, Lee Bergerman — now retired, however in April 2020 the commanding officer of the N.S. Mounties — backed up Campbell’s model of occasions, characterizing Lucki as “offended” on the teleconference.

Lucki can be anticipated to speak to the inquiry Tuesday about RCMP tradition and the psychological post-mortem of the killer.

In 13 hours over April 18 and 19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman killed 22 folks and torched a number of houses in northern Nova Scotia, earlier than being noticed and killed by police.

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