{"id":58037,"date":"2020-06-21T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58037"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:36:23","slug":"paul-wells-everyone-agrees-on-the-need-to-fully-investigate-the-nova-scotia-massacre-but-so-far-there-is-no-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/21\/paul-wells-everyone-agrees-on-the-need-to-fully-investigate-the-nova-scotia-massacre-but-so-far-there-is-no-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Wells – “Everyone agrees!” [on the need to fully investigate the Nova Scotia massacre] … “But so far there is no inquiry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Wells<\/a> in Maclean’s<\/em>:
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We are faced, perhaps only temporarily, with a familiar Canadian paradox: everyone says they want something to happen, but it isn’t happening.<\/p>\n

The “something” is a rigorous public inquiry into a horrible shooting spree that spanned two days and killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in mid-April. It was the worst mass murder in Canadian history. It was lurid in its weirdness. The gunman, Gabriel Wortman, spent two days driving around in a convincing replica RCMP vehicle, shooting at whim, while the force he was imitating and dodging failed to send out a more comprehensive emergency alert than their Twitter warnings, one that might have saved more lives<\/a>. In the midst of the carnage, two actual RCMP officers apparently fired their weapons into the walls of a firehall in Onslow<\/a> for reasons that remain unknown.<\/p>\n

New reporting<\/a> for Maclean’s<\/em> by Shannon Gormley, Stephen Maher and Paul Palango raises troubling new questions<\/a> about Wortman’s possible ties to organized crime and, especially, to the RCMP itself. This reporting is attracting a lot of attention and, here and there, vigorous online debate. This Twitter thread<\/a>, for instance, asks hard questions about our latest story.<\/p>\n

The questions raised by our investigative team including Paul Palango, author of three best-selling books (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) about the troubling history of the RCMP, are backed by a solid and growing network of well-informed sources. But past a certain point, even superb reporting can’t provide authoritative answers. That work is properly left to duly mandated public authorities, usually wearing judges’ robes. Some people, reading the most recent Maclean’s<\/em> reporting, have said the RCMP has a lot of questions to answer. Unfortunately there is no reason to take any answer from the RCMP on faith. It\u2019s time for a full judicial inquiry.<\/p>\n

Everyone agrees! From Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil<\/a> to the latest embattled RCMP commissioner<\/a> to three Trudeau-appointed Nova Scotia senators<\/a> to anguished families of the murdered<\/a> to, I mean sort of, the Prime Minister<\/a>. But so far there is no inquiry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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