March 28, 2024
What's the point of this Nova Scotia 'review'?
The stated purpose of the review is to ensure such an event never happens again. Given the severe limitations placed on the panel, it’s hard to see how it will do anything but cover the backsides of politicians and regional RCMP brass.
The stated purpose of the review is to ensure such an event never happens again. Given the severe limitations placed on the panel, it’s hard to see how it will do anything but cover the backsides of politicians and regional RCMP brass.

Why don’t the federal and Nova Scotia governments save taxpayers a boatload of money by declaring the review they announced Thursday into the April mass killings by Gabriel Wortman already over, rather than going through the motions of holding a pretend review of the worst multiple murder in Canadian history?

Get this, the joint federal-provincial review announced in Halifax by Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey and federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair will have no power to compel any witness, officer, commander or public official to testify.

It will lack the authority to subpoena evidence. It will have no power to pressure any agency or organization that refuses to cooperate.

The three-member review panel is also explicitly forbidden from making public any document given to it by law enforcement, such as the RCMP.

All hearings will be held behind closed doors and the panel cannot make binding recommendations.

Finally, it will be up to the two governments to decide which parts of the report, if any, are made public.

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See Also:

(1) Activists will strike as calls continue for a public inquiry into N.S. massacre

(2) Independent panel ‘a slap in the face,’ says daughter of N.S. shooting victim

(3) Why we need a full public inquiry into the Nova Scotia massacre

(4) Public anger mounts at decision not to hold a full public inquiry into the April mass murders

(5) Over three dozen senators demand ‘open, transparent’ inquiry into N.S. shooting

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