Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro is calling on the federal government to fire RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, saying her continued tenure is damaging to the national police force.
In a statement Wednesday, Shandro calls on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to immediately rescind Lucki's appointment."The commissioner of the RCMP must be held to the highest of standards. So far, Minister Mendicino has stood idly by while Commissioner Lucki has failed to meet even the most meagre of standards for the past two years.
CBC has asked Lucki for her response to Shandro's calls for her removal but has yet to receive a response. Most recently, she has faced questions about her role of in the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to quell the protests that gridlocked parts of downtown Ottawa for weeks.Lucki has repeatedly stated her support for invoking the Emergencies Act. But the inquiry heard that the night before the federal government invoked the act, she told a senior public safety official that she felt police had not yet exhausted "all available tools.
The minister said he spoke with Lucki on Feb. 13 and that she updated him on plans to execute a police operation at the blockade near Coutts, on the Alberta-Montana border. The blockade and protest at the Coutts border ended after a Feb. 14 pre-dawn operation that executed warrants on trailers and property. That operation resulted in RCMP seizing more than a dozen firearms, as well as ammunition and body armour.
Lucki and Blair appeared before the committee this summer. Both denied meddling in the RCMP's investigation.
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Alberta justice minister calls for RCMP commissioner to be removed | Globalnews.ca'The commissioner of the RCMP must be held to the highest of standards. Minister Mendicino has stood idly by while Lucki has failed to meet even the most meagre of standards.'
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