The federal government was interfering with what the local Nova Scotia RCMP could tell the public after the Nova Scotia mass shooting in April of 2020.

What information was revealed to the public in the days following Canada’s deadliest mass shooting wasn’t solely up to the RCMP, claims the director of strategic communications for the Nova Scotia RCMP.

In an interview this past February, Lia Scanlan told members of the Mass Casualty Commission the federal government was involved in what the police force told the public about a gunman’s 13-hour rampage that killed 22 people.

“Minister (Bill) Blair. All these people, the prime minister, they were weighing in on what we could and couldn’t say,” Scanlan said.

Source: Saltwire

This is pretty damning if you ask me, I don’t want the government to get the police to tell the public, the politically correct messaging, I want the truth.

Scanlan said Lucki was advised “by her people” not to, but ended up doing one-off interviews anyway, where she gave “inaccurate” facts or spoke about information that was “fluid,” such as the number of structures that had been burned.

“And she went out and did that and knew damn well — and it was all political pressure,” Scanlan said.

“That is 100 per cent minister Blair and the prime minister. And we have a commissioner that does not push back.”

I mean this is stuff authoritarian countries do and sure you might agree with the agenda that the federal Liberals are doing but they won’t be in power forever and if you support this type of action now, you’ll have no leg to stand on when a future Conservative government does the same thing.

This inquiry is going to be a massive coverup of police incompetence and failed government policies.

The more details that come from the Nova Scotia shooting inquiry sheds more light into the operations of the local RCMP and I think policing in general. This time it was revealed that the police director of strategic communications was glad there was no provincewide alert sent out because she was worried about her officers.

Lia Scanlan, director of strategic communications for the Nova Scotia RCMP, told investigators for the public inquiry into the mass shooting she was “glad” there was no provincewide alert warning about a gunman driving a replica police cruiser.

A transcript of her February interview was released Tuesday at public hearings into the April 2020 killings of 22 people, including RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson.

If there had been an Alert Ready message broadcast on radio, television and smartphones, Scanlan speculated, “My gut? You would have more dead police officers, because this is rural policing.”

Scanlan said that in a small town like Portapique, where the killing started, people take things into their own hands. Had the public known the shooter was impersonating an RCMP officer, that information would have put RCMP members in harm’s way, she said.

Source: CTV News

And here is the crux of the problem, police officers are taught that their lives (and only their lives) are of the utmost importance…  Sorry, when you go into policing your life specifically is not above the public’s but below and if that’s not something you can accept, you should not be a police officer.  It’s like firefighters refusing to enter a burning building because they’re afraid of dying…

I’d go as far as saying that those who died in the morning are the RCMP’s fault, how many of those people would have stayed home had they known a killer was on the loose.  If the RCMP was afraid for their officers lives, in the communique they should have told residents to stay in their homes and not leave for any reason, I think most people would have heeded that advice.  Or double up your officers and say not to trust any lone officer that you see on the road.

Scanlan said in her interview that Twitter and Facebook are effective. “We’ve always communicated on social media. It’s been a best practice … and show me a better practice in policing? There isn’t one,” she told inquiry interviewers.

The gall of this woman, her and her whole department as well as local RCMP leaders should all be fired, social media effective in rural Nova Scotia, that’s really the best system to use?  It’s ok the federal Liberals are covering up for these guys by banning more and more guns because that’ll solve the problem…

In the summer there will be a provincial election and the Ontario Liberal party must be pretty desperate if they’re talking about guns so early.  Are they really out of ideas already on how to improve the lives of people in this province?

I always ask, what’s the ultimate goal here is it to save lives or do anti gun people just hate guns?  I can respect someone’s argument that if they don’t like guns and think they should be banned but spare me the crap about saving lives because if that’s the case, gun deaths are not even a drop in the bucket compared to the even the top 10 leading causes of death.  307,205 deaths in Canada in 2020, 277 of them were from guns.  Hmm looking at the graph there was a sharp increase after Trudeau came to power, does correlation say Liberal governments are bad for gun crime?  Yes the last part was me being a smartass…

The public inquiry into the Nova Scotia killing continues and man this simply shows how incompetent the RCMP was that night.  Some officers wanted to send out a broadcast to the public, the bureaucracy took over and cost people their lives.

Two years after her father was gunned down by a man disguised as a Mountie, Charlene Bagley remains convinced he would be alive today had the Nova Scotia RCMP issued a provincewide alert early in the killer’s rampage.

“He usually would check the news on Facebook,” Bagley said in a recent interview, recalling the morning of April 19, 2020 when her father Tom was murdered. “That was his morning routine. But at that point, they weren’t showing the perpetrator’s face or anything.”

The RCMP’s communication with the public during the gunman’s 13 hours at large has become a focal point for the commission of inquiry investigating the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, which claimed 22 lives on April 18-19, 2020.

Source: CTV News

The RCMP failed the people of Nova Scotia that night, they had information about the killer, his fake uniform and police car within a few hours yet sat on it till the next morning then only relying on Twitter of all damn mediums to put out bulletins.  I really hope that heads roll and some actual accountability comes out instead of the ridiculous narrative about “assault weapons” and that banning would keep people safe.  If that were in place, it would not have stopped the gunman from doing what he did.

So this pisses me off very much, we give police officers a lot of power and responsibility and in turn, they’re suppose to be out there protecting the public.  I’m sorry but part of the job is putting their lives on the line and if that’s something they can’t do, they should find another profession.

Peterson told commission lawyers that he debated what do next. He ultimately decided to turn around and give chase but before doing so drove for another 1.2 kilometres while the gunman drove out of sight. Peterson explained that after deciding to pursue the replica police cruiser, the highway was too narrow to make a quick U-turn so he continued driving north.

“I’m trying to decide, should I stop, slow down, talk to this person, or keep going?” Peterson told commission counsel.

“So, I said, ‘If I stop and this is the bad guy, I’m going to get shot here, I’m going to get killed. If I continue on, that will give me a chance to turn around and pursue him, or to do something,’” he stated.

Source: SaltWire

This officer should be fired at a minimum, dereliction of duty and due to him not confronting the killer at the first opportunity probably cost people their lives…  Failures at all levels of the RCMP but it’s ok the Liberals say banning guns will solve this problem, ridiculous!