A text message exchange between the RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and her Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) counterpart suggests the federal Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair asked Lucki to express support for the Emergencies Act a few days after its invocation.
“Has Minister Blair hit you up for a letter to support the EA [Emergencies Act]?” Lucki wrote to OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique on Feb. 19.
“No, he has not. Should I expect to hear from him?” Carrique replied.
The exchange was entered as evidence before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Oct. 27, the day Carrique was testifying in person before the commission….