In April 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police car, shot and killed 22 people in a 13-hour rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, before police killed him at a gas station about 90 km (60 miles) from the site of his first killings in Portapique.
The rampage shocked a country where mass violence is rare, and a Mass Casualty Commission was set up to conduct a public inquiry.
The commission, which offered 130 recommendations in a report with more than n over 3,000-page report, recommended an external review of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and potentially restructuring the agency, which it said may entail a new approach to federal financial support for provincial and municipal policing services.
The commission’s recommendations are not binding.
Calls for reforming the RCMP are not new and there have been similar public inquiries and reviews in the past that resulted in recommendations…
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