Nova Scotia shooting: RCMP boss testifies about “miscommunication” on alleged interference in probe

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A “miscommunication” led Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Brenda Lucki to tell government officials in April 2020 that details about weapons involved in the Nova Scotia mass shooting would be shared with the public, Lucki testified Monday.

The commissioner made the statement to MPs on the House of Commons public safety committee as it explored whether there was political meddling with the RCMP as it investigated Canada’s deadliest mass shooting.

In the lead-up to a major news conference on April 28, 2020 by Nova Scotia RCMP, Lucki told then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair’s chief of staff and the deputy minister of public safety that information into the weapons used and seized by the perpetrator would be included during the media update. She said she did so after her communications team confirmed those details would be shared.

Global’s Neetu Garcha has the story.