New Brunswick’s plan to change its 911 technology, including storing information, caused concerns with RCMP’s top Mountie at the time. Larry Tremblay outlined his concerns in a September 2021 complaint to the New Brunswick ombud.
Senior RCMP officer complained in 2021 that PC government plan would breach Charter privacy rights
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· Posted: Apr 16, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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While with the RCMP’s J Division, Larry Tremblay flagged concerns with a new 911 call-handling technology being proposed by the province. (CBC)
New Brunswick provincial officials tried five years ago to adopt 911 technology that would have given them access to personal information from emergency calls, a senior RCMP officer alleged at the time.
The Department of Public Safety wanted the calls routed and recorded via a new call-handling technology that would store the information “at a third party data centre,” according to a complaint filed by Larry Tremblay, then the assistant superintendent of the force’s J Division.
The proposal, developed by the department’s office of the provincial security adviser, was blocked following the objections from the RCMP.
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