I just read an updated version of this report and it indicated that the 12 emails were just a portion of the emails sent:<modsnip: quoted post was removed>
Someone responding to the article on Twitter brought up a very good point in that "whackjobs" email government officials all the time, why are 12 people's emails in a country of 37 million, a story?
Those emails seem like they're from a few backseat driver types that have no idea how things work in policing. For example, comparing military to assistance in foreign disaster areas and how/when they were deployed during this manhunt, just proves the person is ignorant about policing, how searches are conducted in this country and has an axe to grind. Same as the person who wants Goodale fired and for this to become an election issue.
Who's willing to bet that the people emailing the PMO thought that the RCMP were wasting their time up in Gillam because the suspects had fled long ago?
CBC News filed an Access to Information request with the federal government for internal communications relating to how the manhunt was handled by RCMP.
Recently, CBC was given roughly a dozen emails sent to the PMO as the first portion of the request. In them, writers expressed dismay that the two B.C. homicide suspects were able to evade police during a weeks-long search this summer, and criticized the lack of information provided by Mounties and the government. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pmo-letters-schmegelsky-mcleod-search-1.5288903
So it appears that under freedom of information, CBC were able to access a small portion of the emails being sent to the PMO?