Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied pressuring RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to release information on the mass shooting investigation in Nova Scotia to help advance his gun control agenda.
“Absolutely not,” he said, when asked by reporters about the issue while speaking to the press in Kigali, Rwanda, on June 23 during a 10-day trip overseas.
“We did not put any undue influence or pressure. It is extremely important to highlight that it is only the RCMP, it is only police, that determine what and when to release information,” Trudeau said.
The controversy emerged on June 21 when the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) released a document on the public communications of the RMCP and government officials after the mass shooting occurred in April 2020….