Nova Scotia’s three main party leaders will square off tonight in a televised debate. Liberal Stephen McNeil, Progressive Conservative Jamie Baillie and New Democrat Gary Burrill are off the campaign trail today in preparation. The event goes from 6-7:30.
Category: Kentville
Moncton shooting RCMP case
The man who conducted an independent review of the Moncton shooting rampage for the R-C-M-P says officers had to make their own decisions because no one took charge.
The Canadian Press says that retired assistant R-C-M-P commissioner Alphonse MacNeil says the lack of co-ordination continued beyond the 20-minute window of the shootings in June 2014 — with members from other detachments not knowing where to go when they arrived.
MacNeil has also told the R-C-M-P’s Labour Code trial that few front-line supervisors were trained to take control of such situations at the time.
Three Mounties were killed and two others wounded before the gunman was apprehended.