Pubdate: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 Source: Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Copyright: 2005 The Edmonton Journal Contact: http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/134 Author: CanWest News Service Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) MCLELLAN UNDER FIRE FOR GROW-OP COMMENTS OTTAWA - Opposition critics are calling on Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan to retract comments linking the shooting deaths of four police officers to marijuana grow operations and suggesting a government review of police procedure should be called. Conservative MP Peter MacKay spoke Tuesday after RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli told CanWest News Service he was too quick to suggest the four Mounties in Mayerthorpe last Thursday were killed by a man defending his grow-op. "I think it would be appropriate (that) the minister retract or at least acknowledge that she was quick off the mark ... when she made this link to grow-ops," said MacKay, the Tory critic for public safety and emergency preparedness. "Saying it was the root cause and suggesting somehow that grow-ops were to blame for these deaths is overstating it and it was said pre-emptively. It was said before all the facts were gathered." - --- MAP posted-by: Beth