Minister Blair Says He Is Unaware if His Chief of Staff Asked RCMP About NS Tragedy Gun Details

Minister Blair Says He Is Unaware if His Chief of Staff Asked RCMP About NS Tragedy Gun Details
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair speaks with reporters as he arrives for a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 22, 2022. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press
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Federal cabinet minister Bill Blair says he is unaware of whether his chief of staff asked RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki if details about the guns used in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings would be made public.

Blair, now the minister of emergency preparedness, appeared before the House of Commons public safety committee on Oct. 31 to address allegations that he politically interfered in the RCMP’s investigation of the mass shootings near the village of Portapique, Nova Scotia, where a gunman killed 22 people on April 18 and 19, 2020.