Police investigate report of man with gun near Air Canada exec's home
By By Kristy Nease, Postmedia News
October 13, 2011
Source - Montreal Gazette
Air Canada vice-president Duncan Dee escorts an adopted child as a flight from Haiti with children being adopted by Canadian families arrives in Ottawa on January 24, 2010. Ottawa police are looking for a man who drove by Dee's home Wednesday night, possibly wielding a gun.
Photograph by: Jana Chytilova, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA â A private security guard working at the south Ottawa home of an Air Canada executive called police Wednesday night when he saw a suspicious motorist brandish what looked like a handgun.
Const. Marc Soucy said officers were called to Duncan Dee's house at about 11:20 p.m. A security guard hired to protect the airline executive vice-president and his family told officers that at about 9:50 p.m., he saw a suspicious, possibly red, late-model Chevrolet Camaro driving around the home with its licence plates covered up.
The guard told officers that the driver of the car brandished what appeared to be a handgun as he passed, then drove away, Soucy said.
Police performed a sweep of the neighbourhood and surrounding area but found nothing, Soucy added. The Ottawa airport area was also searched as a precaution, but nothing was found there either.
At Dee's home on Thursday afternoon, a woman who answered the phone said that both Dee and his partner were at work.
Dee, also Air Canada's chief operating officer, has been the airline's spokesman during its ongoing contract disputes with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, a fight that has made headlines for the last three months. Two contracts negotiated by the union have so far been rejected by flight attendants.
Dee assumed the vice presidency and chief operating officer role in April 2009, according to Air Canada's website. He oversees all airline operations and its customer service.
The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is handling the investigation.
Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick wrote in an email Thursday that because the incident is now a police matter, Air Canada has "no comment to offer."
CUPE spokesman Greg Taylor said the same in an email later Thursday.
knease@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/kristynease
By By Kristy Nease, Postmedia News
October 13, 2011
Source - Montreal Gazette
Photograph by: Jana Chytilova, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA â A private security guard working at the south Ottawa home of an Air Canada executive called police Wednesday night when he saw a suspicious motorist brandish what looked like a handgun.
Const. Marc Soucy said officers were called to Duncan Dee's house at about 11:20 p.m. A security guard hired to protect the airline executive vice-president and his family told officers that at about 9:50 p.m., he saw a suspicious, possibly red, late-model Chevrolet Camaro driving around the home with its licence plates covered up.
The guard told officers that the driver of the car brandished what appeared to be a handgun as he passed, then drove away, Soucy said.
Police performed a sweep of the neighbourhood and surrounding area but found nothing, Soucy added. The Ottawa airport area was also searched as a precaution, but nothing was found there either.
At Dee's home on Thursday afternoon, a woman who answered the phone said that both Dee and his partner were at work.
Dee, also Air Canada's chief operating officer, has been the airline's spokesman during its ongoing contract disputes with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, a fight that has made headlines for the last three months. Two contracts negotiated by the union have so far been rejected by flight attendants.
Dee assumed the vice presidency and chief operating officer role in April 2009, according to Air Canada's website. He oversees all airline operations and its customer service.
The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is handling the investigation.
Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick wrote in an email Thursday that because the incident is now a police matter, Air Canada has "no comment to offer."
CUPE spokesman Greg Taylor said the same in an email later Thursday.
knease@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/kristynease