“By contrast, the RCMP’s first instinct was to take steps to avoid public accountability. Within a matter days, the RCMP were aware of a number of relevant facts – that the perpetrator was known to them, that there had been multiple complaints received by the RCMP about the perpetrator’s violence, that these complaints were shared with different officers and not properly investigated, that one of the officers who failed to investigate had befriended the perpetrator and spent considerable time with him, that an internal police safety bulletin had been created in 2011 warning that the perpetrator wanted to kill a cop and had several rifles and a handgun in his home, and that a timely public safety alert and the use of the Alert Ready system would have saved lives.”
Perryman said the RCMP’s response was not to come to the public and say it had made mistakes and the mistakes would be fixed and learned from but instead it changed narratives and told half-truths to sidestep the mistakes.
“The RCMP’s approach to disclosure throughout this proceeding has been lethargic and troubling, documents have been held back without notice to the commission, critical documents have been released at the 11th hour, counsel for the attorney general of Canada has even advised senior RCMP officers to withhold material information unless they are asked,” he said.
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