Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told the Emergencies Act inquiry on Nov. 22 he couldn’t recall when he became aware of RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s advice that not all tools had been exhausted to clear the cross-country protests and blockades.
Lucki wrote an email to Mendicino’s chief of staff Mike Jones before the Liberal cabinet meeting on the evening of Feb. 13, in which she listed tools that could be useful to deal with the situation.
“I am of the view that we have not yet exhausted all available tools that are already available through the existing legislation,” Lucki wrote at the end of her email….