Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair says he didn’t push the Liberals’ gun-control efforts by pressuring RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to release sensitive information during the investigations into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
Blair and Lucki are at the centre of a controversy sparked by a document released earlier this month by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), an inquiry that is looking into the April 2020 shooting in Nova Scotia that left 22 people killed.
The document included notes from RCMP Superintendent Darren Campbell that said, in an April 28, 2020 teleconference, Lucki had criticized senior RCMP managers who refused to make public sensitive information about the guns used in the killings….