‘Emotions continue to be raw,’ says Conservative MP Ellis, as mass casualty commission continues inquiry into April 2020 Portapique massacre

Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation, says he believes the response of the RCMP during the events of April 2020 'was textbook with the training and the equipment and the resources that you had in the day and what you knew at the time.'

Conservative MP Stephen Ellis pictured addressing the House of Commons on April 7, 2022, where he rose to recognize an incident which 'sadly will live in infamy in the minds of those citizens of Portapique, N.S., and indeed all Canadians.' Photograph courtesy of Facebook

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

April 18, 2022

Conservative MP Stephen Ellis, who represents the Nova Scotia community that saw the worst mass shooting event in Canadian history two years ago, says the mass casualty commission that is looking into those horrific events is helping answer tough questions, but it's difficult work and “emotions co...

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