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On the same day, the account tweeted, “The only argument for Nov. 11 being a national holiday is give civil servants more time off with pay.”

The HR consultant also posted frequently about “taxpayer monies” and “taxes” and lamented what he perceived to be their wasted use by governments.

When the home invasion charges were laid, Bush’s defence lawyer Geraldine Castle Trudel cautioned against a rush to judgment and said all that is known is the police version of events leading up to and following that alleged crime.

“It may not be correct,” she said. “People are innocent until proven guilty.”

She urged police Monday to charge her client if they believe they have reasonable and probable grounds to do so, and took issue with the breakthroughs in the case being reported in the Citizen.

Castle-Trudel did confirm that police executed two search warrants at Bush’s Orleans townhome in recent weeks. During one of those searches, police seized unlicensed firearms — a hunting rifle and a sawed-off shotgun, the Citizen has learned.

Castle-Trudel said she has yet to see the warrants, but spoke to Bush on Sunday at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, where his wife continues to visit him regularly, and where he is mandated by a court to be held in custody.

Once the public learned Bush’s name in December and his family understood what police believed he did, Bush’s lawyer and others asked how it could be that a 59-year-old man suddenly turned to a life of crime? For police, now with additional information and connections to more cases, the question is much the same. A DNA link has pointed to a possible who, but for all, what remains is: Why?