The former director of Nova Scotia's police watchdog denies telling the RCMP not to release a list of the weapons seized from the gunman who murdered 22 people in April 2020.
Pat Curran -- who led the Serious Incident Response Team at the time of the shootings -- says he "gave no directives to the RCMP" about the five firearms Gabriel Wortman had in his possession when he was killed by police at a gas station on April 19.
Emails show that Lucki sent the list to then-public safety minister Bill Blair's office with the caution that it should not be shared beyond the minister and the Prime Minister's Office, as it was part of the ongoing investigation. "We have on one side the operations people, the criminal investigators, who are saying, `do not release this information,' and we have a commissioner who took the information and did with it what she wanted to, that's what it seems to me," said Conservative MP Stephen Ellis.
In April 2020, the Serious Incident Response Team was called to investigate the RCMP's fatal shooting of the gunman. Leather told the committee it "had primacy on that investigation.""The weapons located in the vehicle operated by the shooter were relevant to the RCMP's investigations of the mass shootings," Curran said in an email to The Canadian Press. "I played no role in those investigations and gave no directives to the RCMP concerning them.
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