A public inquiry has found widespread failures in how the Mounties responded to Canada's worst mass shooting and recommends that Ottawa rethink the RCMP's central role in Canadian policing.
Sandra McCulloch, a lawyer with Patterson Law, representing many of the families of victims and others, addresses the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Truro, N.S., Monday, Sept. 20, 2022. The public inquiry that investigated the April 2020 mass murder of 22 people in Nova Scotia is releasing its final report today.
The final report delves deeply into the causes of the mass shooting. These include the killer’s violence toward his spouse and the failure of police to act on it, and “implicit biases” that seemed to blind officers and community members to the danger a white, male professional posed. The report’s summary says that soon after the shooting started in Portapique, N.S., RCMP commanders disregarded witness accounts, and senior Mounties wrongly assumed residents were mistaken when they reported seeing the killer driving a fully marked RCMP cruiser.
“This may entail a reconfiguration of policing in Canada and a new approach to federal financial support for provincial and municipal policing services,” the report says. “There is a long history of efforts to reform the RCMP’s contract policing services model to be more responsive to the needs of … communities they represent,” the report says. “These efforts have largely failed to resolve long-standing criticisms.”
The commission recommends these forms of violence be declared an “epidemic,” while noting many mass violence events begin with an attack on a specific woman. The three commissioners recommend changing the Criminal Code and firearms legislation with the aim of tightening loopholes and strengthening prohibitions on ownership of some weapons, clarifying that gun ownership is a “conditional privilege.”
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