In the wake of the mass shooting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, it has emerged that the police commissioner, Brenda Lukey, may have been interfering with the investigation of the crime, and trying to get her own office involved in the process.
00:00:00.000I'm sure most of you have already seen it, but I mean, the investigation, you know, two and some years ago with that horrible shooting, 22 people murdered by that lunatic in Nova Scotia. And it sounds like there was a lot of confusion, Keystone Cop sort of things going on. The communications between the RCMP and the public and even their own officers was a bit of a mess. An RCMP officer lost her life in that.
00:00:22.560And the investigation, or at least some of the follow-up and everything, some of the information has just come out now. And it was the Halifax newspaper that put it out. I'm not sure who they were now, but they found information, basically, Halifax Examiner. I want to give them credit where it's due. It's a very good long story that it looks like the police commissioner, Brenda Lukey, or Lucky, I should say, was directly screwing around with the investigation.
00:00:51.600I mean, this is right when it was happening. She was appointed by Justin Trudeau. And it sounds like her messing around with that investigation, possibly screwing it up, was at the behest of Trudeau and the safety, public safety minister at the time. Like, this is huge. This is massive. This isn't just, I mean, we know the RCMP commissioners politicize. That's nothing new. When you've got somebody appointed by one person, they're going to be a bit beholden to them.
00:01:19.280But that's to a point of giving press conferences being a little fluffier than you should with the prime minister's office or, you know, doing things to help a little. But you don't step in on the biggest mass murder in Canadian history, mass shooting, and screw around with the investigation on behalf of the prime minister.
00:01:38.020That's a whole new line having been crossed. This is huge. And some of it was just in communications.
00:01:46.020There was apparently a protocol saying, okay, the Halifax detachment has a communications head who's going to speak to the press and share the information about what's going on as it breaks.
00:01:55.360We're talking just hours after they finally shot the lunatic who was shooting people.
00:01:59.840And they're doing a press conference. And this RCMP press officer is getting questions from the press saying, well, your numbers are conflicting with Brenda Luckey's numbers.
00:02:10.860What are you talking about? Well, Brenda did an interview with CBC and CTV and Canadian press.
00:02:14.800And she said this many and this and this many of that. She's out there on her own giving different numbers.
00:02:19.760Like, just put herself front and center against the policy of her own government to try and put herself front and center on, this is, again, we're talking only hours after this person had been shot.
00:02:31.580What the hell is she doing? And then beyond that, though, that's just the more minor of the interference.
00:02:38.340The next one was she was trying to force the investigators to release inside information on what the firearms used in this were.
00:02:46.640And again, there's notes from one of the RCMP officers saying that she was doing this because she promised the prime minister and the safety minister that she would because they wanted it out there because they wanted to get their firearms bill and ban a whole bunch of different types of firearms out there.
00:03:02.300And they wanted to make sure that the public saw what these firearms were. So it helps them make their case for their legislation.
00:03:10.820But this was in the midst of an investigation. In fact, it was an international one.
00:03:15.020They had determined that these firearms had come from the United States illegally.
00:03:19.360So they were working with American law enforcement. And some of this needs discretion.
00:03:24.540You're still trying to find out who smuggled them. Why? Where did they come from? What were they?
00:03:28.420You keep that information tight for a while when you're in the midst of an investigation.
00:03:33.020But that was politically impractical for Trudeau, who wants to rush through, as he did a couple weeks later, with a massive order in council banning a whole bunch of firearms.
00:03:41.400So she tried to pressure investigators to screw up their own investigation and release that information.
00:03:50.120They refused, thankfully. They basically told her to go to hell.
00:03:53.400There was a tweet from a clown with the Toronto Star on that issue yesterday.
00:03:57.540It just showed. I think I retweeted it and said, this is what subsidized media will buy you.
00:04:03.900Or the response. If you look on my Twitter account, Corey B. Morgan on Twitter.
00:04:08.160Because I can't remember the name of him. I don't read the bloody red star that often.
00:04:12.680But it's the truth. Basically, he was trying to run interference for the Liberal Party.
00:04:16.180And he says, well, yeah, this story is interesting. Might need some more investigation.
00:04:20.020By the way, Pierre Pauliev, look at the language he was doing.
00:04:21.980It's like this media subsidized horror of a, you know, a columnist just saying, hey, look, squirrel.
00:04:30.340You know, we got one of the, what could be one of the biggest scandals of the decade breaking.