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The Prime Minister’s Office should have known about police investigations into Joshua Boyle before agreeing to meet with him, says one of Ottawa’s former top cops.

“No matter who was investigating him, they would have known,” Conservative Sen. Vern White told the Sun. White was chief of Ottawa Police Service from 2007 to 2012 and an assistant RCMP commissioner before that.

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“There is only one system,” adds White. “If you run [Boyle] against the system, it would have said he was under investigation.”

This suggests that either Justin Trudeau’s RCMP detail did not run a check on Boyle or did but the meeting went ahead anyway.

On Tuesday, media learned that Boyle was arrested and faces 15 charges, including eight counts of assault, two counts of unlawful confinement and one count of misleading police. Boyle appeared in court Wednesday morning but his case was adjourned until next week.