Committee hearing exposes rift within RCMP, but observer says political interference claims in mass shooting investigation a red herring

'The important thing that happened is all these people died,' says political science professor Nelson Wiseman, 'and we’ve now discovered that there were all these hints and signals that this was happening.'

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, right, and Deputy Commissioner Brian Brennan appear before the House Public Safety Committee on July 25 to discuss allegations of political interference in the RCMP investigation of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

July 26, 2022

Recent testimony from current and former RCMP employees before the House Public Safety Committee has shed light on tensions between “downtown” command in Ottawa and senior RCMP leadership in Nova Scotia in the days after the April 2020 mass shooting that began in ...

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