A lawyer representing victims of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting told an inquiry it should recognize the RCMP made errors in responding.
Lawyers representing most of the victims presented their final oral submissions to the commission of inquiry, which started public hearings in February and is expected to submit a final report with recommendations to improve public safety by March 31.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Our clients submit that this overall failure in preparedness led to a host of basic mistakes. These aren’t mistakes to be hidden behind a lack of funding or by viewing the event as a whole and calling it unprecedented …. These are, in our clients’ view, basic mistakes which contributed to the unprecedented nature of the event.”Article content
“We submit that the RCMP … had the perpetrator on its radar, and yet this radar appears to have been turned off again and again,” McCulloch said. The inquiry has heard the RCMP used Twitter to warn the public that a killer was on the loose about 10 hours after the shooting started in Portapique. As well, the inquiry heard evidence that the Mounties initially rejected using the Alert Ready system to send intrusive warnings to most radios, TVs and cellphones, even though they had been encouraged to use the system years earlier.
Lawyer Josh Bryson, who represents relatives of victims Peter and Joy Bond, said the RCMP’s chain of command was “unwieldy” because decisions regarding additional resources required multiple layers of bureaucracy.
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