Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Brenda Lucki will be retiring next month from her role leading Canada’s national police force. In a statement on Feb. 15, Lucki said she had “made a personal decision to retire.” Lucki was approaching the end of a five-year term, which began on April 16, 2018. She was the…

The RCMP has sent officers in uniform and marked police cars to have a “visible presence” at locations where alleged secret Chinese police stations are operating in Toronto and Vancouver, says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. Lucki told MPs on the House committee on Canada-China relations that the RCMP had sent the police presence to “cause disruption to the…

Brenda Lucki not only lost confidence in the leadership of former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly over the “Freedom Convoy” protests, the RCMP commissioner was so concerned she was prepared to go directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a public inquiry learned Thursday. Lucki’s comments were released in the form of notes taken during a…

An affidavit by an RCMP security investigator details how the force obtained recordings of a tense meeting at the centre of allegations of political interference into the Mounties’ investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting. The affidavit sworn Friday by Supt. Jeffrey Beaulac, the RCMP’s deputy chief security officer at national headquarters in Ottawa, was released Tuesday by the public inquiry into the April 18-19, 2020,…

The House of Commons public safety committee voted 6–5 Monday to re-question both RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair over allegations of political interference in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting investigation. The allegations resurfaced last week after the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) made public a phone-call recording of Lucki…

The phone call that gave rise to allegations of political interference in the RCMP’s investigation of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings has been released to the public. The Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) made public on Oct. 20 recordings and transcripts of the phone call between several RCMP officials, including Commissioner Brenda Lucki and Chief…

A senior RCMP officer has testified that lawyers from the federal Justice Department advised him not to disclose a call he received from Commissioner Brenda Lucki asking him to send her details of the firearms used in the mass shooting in Nova Scotia. In his testimony on July 27, Chief Supt. Chris Leather told the…

The senior RCMP officer whose handwritten notes have ignited the controversy about allegations of political interference in the investigation of the Nova Scotia mass shooting said on July 26 that he stands by his account. Chief Superintendent Darren Campbell also said that any kind of interference in investigations, political or not, is unacceptable. A day…

A former RCMP assistant commissioner has backed her colleagues’ claims that Commissioner Brenda Lucki was pressured by former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to release details of firearms used in the mass shooting incident in Nova Scotia to further the Liberal government’s gun control agenda. Lee Bergerman, also the…

HALIFAX—RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki initially recommended the federal government not share information on the types of guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting — a stance she apparently shifted a few days later. Emails released today by a public inquiry indicate Lucki wrote to then−public safety minister Bill Blair’s chief of staff and deputy…