Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not made a decision on whether to reappoint Commissioner Lucki when her five-year term comes up for renewal in March
, where Justice Paul Rouleau is reviewing Ottawa’s unprecedented decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end a rash of protests and blockades against pandemic measures.
One of the meetings that she misremembered was chaired by the Prime Minister on Feb. 13. Her prepared notes for that meeting included her assessment that police had “not yet exhausted all available tools” in existing legislation but she never relayed that at the meeting. Criticisms of Commissioner Lucki’s conduct have now been raised at two different inquiries this year. Asked about that by The Globe on Tuesday, she dismissed the question.
Those allegations led to parliamentary hearings in which Commissioner Lucki and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair were called to testify about possible political interference. The Commissioner later denied she was under political direction to release firearms information. But, she acknowledged, she felt an imperative to get more information to the public as quickly as possible.
Like other commissioners, Prof. Kempa said Commissioner Lucki has taken the position that “political leadership … can ask her anything about operations but they cannot get involved in offering any advice on any operational matters.”
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