RCMP charge former floor-crossing MP after U.S. investigation
Manitoba RCMP have laid 12 weapons-related charges against a former floor-crosser MP, Inky Mark, seizing “hundreds of firearms,” ammunition and more than $300,000 in cash.
RCMP charged former Manitoba MP Inky Mark with 12 firearms-related offences after an investigation originating with U.S. firearms charges against a separate 73-year-old Dauphin-area man.
Police said evidence discovered during the investigation into that individual led officers to obtain two warrants to search the residence of former floor crosser Mark in Dauphin. During the July 7 searches, RCMP seized 439 firearms, an antique cannon, ammunition and more than $300,000 in cash.
RCMP announced 12 charges against Mark, a 78-year-old former floor-crossing MP, after a months-long investigation spurred on by U.S. officials laying firearms charges against the other man and the execution of multiple search warrants at his property.
Multiple outlets reported on Mark’s former ties to the Reform Party, which was succeeded by the Canadian Alliance. The Alliance later merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the current Conservative Party of Canada, but few noted that Mark later said he had become a Green Party member, despite running as an independent in 2015.
He was also an outspoken critic of then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whom he described in social-media posts as a ‘fascist’ and the leader of a ‘top-down dictatorship, and accused the prime minister of being installed by the American Central Intelligence Agency.
