A year after Nova Scotia shooting tragedy, it’s clear there’s plenty of guilt to go around

Information on the causes of the tragedy has been hard to come by over the past year.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair is pictured in Ottawa on Oct. 19, 2020. With a class-action lawsuit being launched by victims’ families and the federal and Nova Scotia governments deciding under public pressure to establish a full judicial inquiry, Canadians may eventually find out more about how this all happened and who bears responsibility, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 17, 2021

OTTAWA—Maybe someday we’ll find out what the Nova Scotia killer (his name should be buried along with him) was really up to all those years before he went on a shooting rampage nearly one year ago. From what information has dribbled out, it sounds like he might have been engaged in various crim...

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