Brenda Lucki

The suggestion that Commissioner Lucki attempted to influence a police investigation to aid the government has embroiled her in a political storm.

The commissioner said in her Aug. But she spent much of her testimony complaining that the force doesn’t receive enough positive media coverage. The commissioner’s interest in releasing the gun details seemed to be purely for political reasons, to boost public support for the upcoming legislation, he added. And in any case, she said, she wasn’t contacting them because of orders from her political bosses in the federal government. But she stopped short of offering any specific changes that will come from those lessons, apart from “anything that makes Canadians safer.” But she didn’t dispute that she had told investigators working on the mass shooting that the information was tied to pending federal gun control legislation. “When I think about it before I go to bed, I honestly can’t sleep,” she said. But senior Nova Scotia RCMP commanders had previously testified that releasing the gun information would have compromised their investigation at that stage, particularly as they questioned people who helped the gunman obtain his weapons. Senior Mounties have said she pressed them to prematurely release details on what guns the killer used, weeks before the Prime Minister announced a ban on certain types of firearms. “You have my commitment we’re going to be doing everything we can to be a better RCMP from these recommendations.” And it has made her one of the inquiry’s most anticipated witnesses. The country’s top Mountie was grilled during hours-long testimony in Halifax on Tuesday at the Mass Casualty Commission, a public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, during which a gunman tore through rural parts of the province for 13 hours, killing 22 people.

Commissioner Brenda Lucki faced questions from the Mass Casualty Commission leading the public inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting on Tuesday in Halifax, ...

Lucki said Tuesday she didn't see that detail from the email, but had assumed she was fine to send along the firearms information to certain political offices because she'd already referenced how the public safety minister was "anxious" to have those details. In his recent interview with the commission, Brennan said he would have told Lucki about this piece of information because they worked down the hall from one another. Lucki said she also "scratched" her head at the excess of 10 quote. Lucki said it's not about being honest or dishonest, but there are many factors to look at which change "from one decision to another." Canadians want to know what was happening," Lucki said. When the gun details weren't released, Lucki told the House of Commons committee she was upset because, "I felt I had misinformed the minister and, by extension, the prime minister." comms team that we would have put together should have been there like that first or second day," Lucki said. know the conversations I had with the minister," Lucki said. When a commission lawyer noted that the N.S. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the government did not put any "undue" pressure on the RCMP. It was just an if — is that information going to be part of that media event?" "That's got to take a toll on you.

Top Mountie has denied allegations she interfered in investigation into killings.

Lucki said that the release of that information was “tied to pending legislation,” according to Campbell’s notes. In a letter to Lucki almost a year later, Scanlan wrote of the meeting: “I was embarrassed to be privy to what was unfolding. “There was a lot of questions about the weapons. Yeah, there was a lot of pressure, most of it coming from the media itself. “The weapons themselves did not matter to me,” she told the inquiry. Lucki said she passed that information along to the minister’s office.

HALIFAX—The nation's top Mountie is expected to take the stand Tuesday at the inquiry into the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, ...

The report included comments by staff members who said that there were “dysfunctions” at H-Division before the mass shootings and that they felt abandoned by their superiors in the aftermath of the murders. 4, during which she described a desire to make transparency a hallmark of the police force. “We’ve always felt that because things are under investigation, that we can’t release things. She said she wasn’t told, however, about an email that day to deputy commissioner Brian Brennan, who was informed that RCMP investigators didn’t want the details made public out of fear doing so would harm their case. The redacted summary released this week by the inquiry also included confidential interviews describing top regional leaders as “a small clique of officers in a mutually supportive group … We need to be able to communicate, both within and externally,” Lucki told the public inquiry that is examining how a gunman driving a replica police car carried out 22 murders on April 18-19, 2020.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is to appear on the witness stand for a second day at the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.

The RCMP’s difficulties in swiftly and forthrightly communicating with the public and media have been revealed throughout the inquiry by officers and civilian employees. She says she was often left in the dark in the aftermath of the shooter’s 13-hour rampage, which claimed the lives of 22 people on April 18-19, 2020. Lucki testified on Tuesday that the force must improve its communications internally and with the public.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has repeated her stance that she didn't deal with political pressure to make firearms details about the Nova Scotia mass ...

HALIFAX—The nation's top Mountie is expected to take the stand Tuesday at the inquiry into the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, ...

Lucki said that the release of that information was “tied to pending legislation,” according to Campbell’s notes. In a letter to Lucki almost a year later, Scanlan wrote of the meeting: “I was embarrassed to be privy to what was unfolding. “There was a lot of questions about the weapons. Yeah, there was a lot of pressure, most of it coming from the media itself. “The weapons themselves did not matter to me,” she told the inquiry. Lucki said she passed that information along to the minister’s office.