The federal government never pressured RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to release details about the investigation into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“Every step of the way, we recognized and supported the fact that the RCMP and police of jurisdiction are the ones who decide what is released and when,” Trudeau told reporters during a press conference in Surrey, B.C., on Oct. 21.
“[The RCMP] make decisions about how to balance the need of the public to get answers and the need to protect the integrity of investigations.”
On Thursday, the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), an independent public inquiry created to examine the shootings on April 18 and 19, 2020, wherein a gunman killed 22 people around Portapique, Nova Scotia, released recordings and transcripts of an RCMP phone call in which Lucki told staff that then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair had asked for details about the guns used in the shooting to be made public….