The more Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission hears about the events of April 18 and 19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman authored Canada’s worst-ever mass shooting, the worse it looks for the Nova Scotia RCMP. And that’s some feat, considering all the dreadful failures we already knew about.
For example: The force’s decision not to engage the provincial Alert Ready system, and instead to provide incomplete-to-useless information via social media, was a known debacle — the worst and least forgivable of the Mounties’ mistakes. But documents released by the commission this week provided more damning insight into that decision.
Among those documents was a transcript of an interview RCMP investigators conducted in February with Lia Scanlan, the Nova Scotia RCMP’s director (in name only) of (not very) strategic communications. Asked why an alert wasn’t beamed out to radios, televisions and phones, Scanlan answered them bluntly: “My gut? You would have more dead police officers, because this is rural policing.”
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