Inquiry into Nova Scotia mass killing plods along in private

The Mass Casualty Commission, announced in mid-2020, has not held any public hearings and has recently put off doing so for four months until February.

RCMP vehicles are pictured responding to the mass shooting that began in Portapique, N.S., on April 18, 2020. Victims’ families and the public are demanding to know the details of the RCMP’s cascading ineptitude on the night of the murders, writes Les Whittington. Screenshot courtesy of CBC News

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

December 15, 2021

OTTAWA—In the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department, consider that the hard-won public inquiry into the murder of 22 people by a lone gunman in Nova Scotia in 2020 is being done in private. Following the 13-hour rampage of house-burnings and multiple shootings on April 18-19 that year, victim...

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