Western Standard - June 23, 2022


RCMP tried to leverage massacre into support for federal gun control...

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Justin Trudeau Brenda Luckey Corey Morgan Pierre Poilievre Keystone Cop
EXCLUSIVE： Free parking for municipal employees & survivors of socialism CORY'S RANT Legacy media is running interference for Justin Trudeau

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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.

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00:00:00.000 I'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.
00:00:22.560 And 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.
00:00:51.600 I 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.
00:01:19.280 But 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.
00:01:38.020 That's a whole new line having been crossed. This is huge. And some of it was just in communications.
00:01:46.020 There 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.
00:01:55.360 We're talking just hours after they finally shot the lunatic who was shooting people.
00:01:59.840 And 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.
00:02:10.860 What are you talking about? Well, Brenda did an interview with CBC and CTV and Canadian press.
00:02:14.800 And she said this many and this and this many of that. She's out there on her own giving different numbers.
00:02:19.760 Like, 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.
00:02:31.580 What the hell is she doing? And then beyond that, though, that's just the more minor of the interference.
00:02:38.340 The next one was she was trying to force the investigators to release inside information on what the firearms used in this were. 0.96
00:02:46.640 And 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.
00:03:02.300 And they wanted to make sure that the public saw what these firearms were. So it helps them make their case for their legislation.
00:03:10.820 But this was in the midst of an investigation. In fact, it was an international one.
00:03:15.020 They had determined that these firearms had come from the United States illegally.
00:03:19.360 So they were working with American law enforcement. And some of this needs discretion.
00:03:24.540 You're still trying to find out who smuggled them. Why? Where did they come from? What were they?
00:03:28.420 You keep that information tight for a while when you're in the midst of an investigation.
00:03:33.020 But 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.
00:03:41.400 So she tried to pressure investigators to screw up their own investigation and release that information. 0.92
00:03:50.120 They refused, thankfully. They basically told her to go to hell. 0.99
00:03:53.400 There was a tweet from a clown with the Toronto Star on that issue yesterday. 0.99
00:03:57.540 It just showed. I think I retweeted it and said, this is what subsidized media will buy you. 0.78
00:04:03.900 Or the response. If you look on my Twitter account, Corey B. Morgan on Twitter.
00:04:08.160 Because I can't remember the name of him. I don't read the bloody red star that often.
00:04:12.680 But it's the truth. Basically, he was trying to run interference for the Liberal Party.
00:04:16.180 And he says, well, yeah, this story is interesting. Might need some more investigation.
00:04:20.020 By the way, Pierre Pauliev, look at the language he was doing.
00:04:21.980 It's like this media subsidized horror of a, you know, a columnist just saying, hey, look, squirrel.
00:04:30.340 You know, we got one of the, what could be one of the biggest scandals of the decade breaking.
00:04:33.920 And he's saying, go look over there.
00:04:36.660 That's what they're spending your tax dollars to do. 0.90
00:04:39.480 This government is corrupt.
00:04:41.900 It's to the point of influencing the, again, the commissioner of the RCMP. 0.84
00:04:47.800 It's got the media dancing like puppets for them. 0.87
00:04:51.160 The man should be ripped from office.
00:04:53.340 The entire government should be ripped from office.
00:04:55.220 This is Canada, though.
00:04:56.320 I don't know what it takes.
00:04:57.540 I really don't.
00:04:58.800 But what we do need right now is an inquiry.
00:05:01.600 We need a truly independent inquiry.
00:05:03.980 I want to hear from our parliamentarians.
00:05:05.520 I want to hear from our leaders in there.
00:05:07.340 The NDP should even be standing up on this and saying, look, we need to strike this.
00:05:10.580 We need to subpoena people.
00:05:11.500 We need to get to the bottom of this and find out just what the hell happened here.
00:05:14.460 Because how deep does this get?
00:05:18.740 How bold are they willing to get to screw with our justice system to try and help themselves in policy positions?
00:05:24.660 I mean, a lot of people have pointed out, you know, that Trudeau never gets charged with anything, it seems.
00:05:31.740 The RCMP investigate all sorts of stuff and things never happen.