Where are the alarm bells after the armed incursion at the PM’s residence?

This lack of official information after such an incident would not be tolerated in any other so-called advanced country; here we live with it.

The gravity of the charge of uttering threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to have been obscured in all the talk about what a decent guy Corey Hurren is, his COVID-related trauma and his concerns about losing the vehicle he needs as a northern Canadian Ranger, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 22, 2020

OTTAWA—Maybe it’s because of the COVID-19 emergency or summertime or the lack of information supplied by the RCMP, but the magnitude of the Corey Hurren episode on July 2 appears to have been overlooked. Hurren, a heavily armed 46-year-old Canadian Armed Forces reservist from Manitoba, was arre...

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