RCMP Fails to Submit Plan on How It Will Respond to Nova Scotia Mass Shooting Inquiry

Published on January 9, 2024

The RCMP have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to detail how they plan to implement recommendations from the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting. When the Mass Casualty Commission last March released its final report into the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, complete with 130 recommendations, the Mounties said they planned to release an “implementation strategy” before the end of 2023. The national police force also said the RCMP commissioner would provide a progress report. But that deadline has passed, and on Jan. 8 the RCMP did not respond to a request for comment about the delay. The public inquiry’s final report offered a blistering critique of the RCMP’s actions in April 2020, when a man disguised as a Mountie and driving a replica RCMP cruiser, fatally shot 22 people during a 13-hour rampage through northern and central Nova Scotia....