LILLEY: Trudeau must resign for interfering with cops in N.S. shooting

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A report from a public inquiry exhibits that the Trudeau authorities interfered in a prison investigation. The federal government denies they did this, however Trudeau has lied about interfering in a prison investigation previously and sure is now.

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In 2019, Trudeau responded to a narrative that he had tried to intrude with the continuing prison prosecution of SNC-Lavalin by saying that “the allegations within the Globe story are false.” Trudeau repeated that lie a number of occasions that February day and plenty of occasions after, however the fact ultimately got here out.

That’s the essential factor to recollect whenever you hear the denials from the Trudeau authorities on their political interference within the investigation into the Nova Scotia mass capturing. They’re denying they did something political — that they pressured the RCMP to launch data on the weapons used to additional their gun management laws.

Police notes on the time again up the declare of political interference, so who’re you going to imagine?

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“The commissioner mentioned she had promised the minister of public security and the Prime Minister’s Workplace that the RCMP (we) would launch this data,” learn the handwritten notes of Supt. Darren Campbell.

These notes have been taken instantly after an April 28, 2020 assembly he and others had with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. In that assembly, Lucki wished to know why the kind of firearms utilized by the killer within the April 18-19 homicide spree weren’t being launched in the course of the common media updates.

“I attempted to elucidate there was no intent to disrespect anybody, nevertheless we couldn’t launch this data presently,” Campbell wrote. “The commissioner then mentioned that we didn’t perceive, that this was tied to pending gun management laws that may make officers and the general public safer.”

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Campbell’s notes, now launched as a part of the official proof of the Mass Casualty Fee, additionally present that Lucki expressed her dissatisfaction with Campbell and others for not releasing this data. His declare of political interference can also be backed up by the phrases of Lia Scanlan, then the director of communications for the RCMP in Nova Scotia.

So we’ve a historical past of Trudeau interfering in prison investigations, an RCMP superintendent and a senior civilian within the pressure saying the interference occurred, and hapless Invoice Blair, the previous minister of public security, making denials in Ottawa.

“No path of an operational matter was given by me or anybody else on this authorities,” Blair instructed the Commons underneath questioning from Conservative MP John Brassard.

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There’s sufficient wiggle room in Blair’s denials to drive a truck by. Even the assertion issued by Lucki isn’t actually a denial a lot as an admission she dealt with that assembly badly.

“I remorse the best way I approached the assembly and the impression it had on these in attendance. My want for data ought to have been higher weighed in opposition to the seriousness of the circumstances they have been experiencing,” Lucki wrote.

What her assertion didn’t deny in any manner was the declare that she had made a promise to the PMO to get data out to assist with their new gun management laws.

Even Canadians who’re supportive of the Trudeau authorities’s gun management agenda needs to be outraged by this. That is proof of a authorities utilizing a tragedy for his or her political agenda and interfering with a police investigation to take action.

We don’t have politicians direct police in issues like this in Canada, that’s what occurs in undemocratic international locations. Should you nonetheless are OK with what occurred, ask your self how you’d react if it was Stephen Harper or Doug Ford going through these allegations as a substitute of Justin Trudeau.

We will’t apply legal guidelines and rules based mostly on whether or not we assist the politician concerned.

Trudeau, Blair and Lucki all must go.

blilley@postmedia.com