RCMP called for urgent action weeks before carbon tax protest fizzled: internal emails
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Emails obtained by CTV News show RCMP in Cochrane calling for action and urgent meetings with Alberta's transportation ministry over a months-long carbon tax protest along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary.
Emails obtained by CTV News show RCMP in Cochrane calling for action and urgent meetings with Alberta's transportation ministry over a months-long carbon tax protest along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary.
"We have a developing situation at the Protest Site at Cochrane today," wrote Cochrane RCMP Sgt. Matt Pumphrey in a Sept. 20 email to several provincial government staffers, including the transportation ministry's head of emergency management.
"I send this to you for awareness and action as it is becoming more and more important from a public safety standpoint to have this site cleared," the sergeant wrote in asking for an urgent discussion on the matter.
The emails between the RCMP and the province were obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The province's written response to Pumphrey's email is completely redacted.
"Right around that time, we had intelligence from the Calgary Police Service that there was going to be another protest that was scheduled to happen in Calgary (and it) was going to happen at that site as well," Pumphrey said on Wednesday.
"It ended up one group showed up, the other group did not. So, we were kind of planning for three different protest groups to come at the same time, but that never materialized."
The protest started along the highway near Cochrane in April as hundreds gathered to speak out against the federal carbon tax.
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