UCP leadership contender Travis Toews said it’s “repulsive” RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki pressured officials to release details of an ongoing investigation to help Ottawa’s gun control agenda. .On Tuesday, the Halifax Examiner reported Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to release details of the weapons used to murder 22 people because she had promised then Public Safety minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office the RCMP would release the information as it was "tied to pending gun control legislation.”."The events were so tragic, initially, but that kind of interference by the federal government, I think, is just a serious overreach,” Toews told the Western Standard at his campaign launch in Edmonton Tuesday night. .Amid the controversy, the former Finance minister also renewed his support for a provincial police force in Alberta. .“I would absolutely commit to work with rural Albertans, municipalities, and others to work together to bring all of rural Alberta along in that decision.”.On April 18 and 19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings and set fires at 16 locations in Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed by the RCMP. The crime spree lasted 13 hours, and three people, including Wortman's spouse, were charged with supplying him the ammunition used in the attacks..The RCMP since learned the killer paid a man named Neil Gallivan to purchase one assault-style rifle at a 2019 gun show in Houlton, Maine, in the US. The killer also obtained two illegal handguns from a close friend and collector named Sean Conlogue. No charges have been laid against either men..Toews is currently in third place in the leadership race, trailing former Opposition Wildrose Party leaders Danielle Smith and Brian Jean, per a new Angus Reid Institute poll..The Grande Prairie-Wapiti MLA has 25% support among UCP-leaning voters — up from less than 10% a short time ago..UCP members will elect a new leader and premier on October 6.
UCP leadership contender Travis Toews said it’s “repulsive” RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki pressured officials to release details of an ongoing investigation to help Ottawa’s gun control agenda. .On Tuesday, the Halifax Examiner reported Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to release details of the weapons used to murder 22 people because she had promised then Public Safety minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office the RCMP would release the information as it was "tied to pending gun control legislation.”."The events were so tragic, initially, but that kind of interference by the federal government, I think, is just a serious overreach,” Toews told the Western Standard at his campaign launch in Edmonton Tuesday night. .Amid the controversy, the former Finance minister also renewed his support for a provincial police force in Alberta. .“I would absolutely commit to work with rural Albertans, municipalities, and others to work together to bring all of rural Alberta along in that decision.”.On April 18 and 19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings and set fires at 16 locations in Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed by the RCMP. The crime spree lasted 13 hours, and three people, including Wortman's spouse, were charged with supplying him the ammunition used in the attacks..The RCMP since learned the killer paid a man named Neil Gallivan to purchase one assault-style rifle at a 2019 gun show in Houlton, Maine, in the US. The killer also obtained two illegal handguns from a close friend and collector named Sean Conlogue. No charges have been laid against either men..Toews is currently in third place in the leadership race, trailing former Opposition Wildrose Party leaders Danielle Smith and Brian Jean, per a new Angus Reid Institute poll..The Grande Prairie-Wapiti MLA has 25% support among UCP-leaning voters — up from less than 10% a short time ago..UCP members will elect a new leader and premier on October 6.