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RCMP Commissioner made backroom deal to help Trudeau push gun control efforts after 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting

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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki promised Trudeau’s then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that the Nova Scotia mass murders would be used for political gain to help pass gun control laws.

According to a bombshell from the Halifax Examiner, the commissioner pressured the RCMP to release details of the weapons used by Gabriel Wortman in his April 18-19 attack on civilians. Commanders in the Nova Scotia RCMP refused to do so out of fear that it could “jeopardize” investigations.

RCMP commanders had fears that revealing the info would “interfere with a cross-border police investigation into how the killer managed to obtain and smuggle into Canada four illegal guns used to commit many of the 22 murders,” the Examiner reports.

It was found that Wortman had paid a man named Neil Gallivan to purchase an assault rifle at a 2019 gun show in Houlton, Maine, and also obtained two illegal handguns from a collector and close friend named Sean Conlogue.

Gallivan and Conlogue have both not been charged with anything up until this point.

During press conference in the week after the massacre Chief Supt. Chris Leather answered questions about everything except for details regarding how the firearms were obtained.

Following that press conference, Asst. Commander Lee Bergerman, Leather, and Nova Scotia Communications director Lia Scanlan had a meeeting with the commissioner and a deputy from Ottawa on a conference call.

The Examinerstates that Lucki “was not happy,” and included handwritten notes made immediately after the meeting:

 

full story at https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-rcmp-commissioner-made-backroom-deal-to-help-trudeau-push-gun-control-efforts-after-2020-nova-scotia-mass-shooting

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