By Canadian Press

RCMP commissioner to answer questions about arrested intelligence director

Sep 17, 2019 | 9:02 AM

OTTAWA — Top Mountie Brenda Lucki is to address the case of the RCMP employee charged with trying to disclose secret information today.

The force’s commissioner is giving a news conference at the force’s headquarters in suburban Ottawa at 1 p.m. local time.

Cameron Jay Ortis, 47, faces charges under the Security of Information Act as well as two Criminal Code provisions for allegedly trying to disclose classified material to a foreign entity or terrorist group.

Ortis, who was director general of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, began his career with the Mounties in 2007 after earning a doctorate in political science. 

Lucki says the force is trying to assess and deal with the damage that might have been caused.

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She’s promising to update the public on the investigation and to take questions for the first time since Ortis was arrested last Friday.

The Canadian Press