RCMP’s Lucki Said All Legal Tools Not Yet Exhausted Shortly Before Emergencies Act Invoked

RCMP’s Lucki Said All Legal Tools Not Yet Exhausted Shortly Before Emergencies Act Invoked
An RCMP tactical vehicle drives past the Parliament Buildings after a massive police operation quelled the Freedom Convoy protest days earlier, in Ottawa on Feb. 20, 2022. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki said shortly before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act to clear convoy protests that not all existing legal tools to deal with the protests had yet been exhausted.

“I am of the view that we have not yet exhausted all available tools that are already available through the existing legislation,” Lucki said in an email to Mike Jones, chief of staff to the minister of public safety, on the evening of Feb. 13.