A second RCMP employee is alleging that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was under political pressure to reveal the types of firearms used in the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
The Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) looking into the tragedy released additional documents on June 28, one of which is an email letter to Lucki from the Nova Scotia RCMP strategic communications director at the time, Lia Scanlan.
The letter is dated April 14, 2021, a year after the shooting, and touches on the teleconference that took place between RCMP H Division (Nova Scotia) and RCMP Headquarters on April 28, 2020.
“The reason for the meeting was unclear, although I suspected it may have to do with ‘guns’, given I was asked if Darren could speak about the guns less than two hours before the press conference was scheduled to take place,” wrote Scanlan….