The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit the police force.
Mark Furey, who later served as Nova Scotia’s justice minister, says that in 2012, he recommended the RCMP start using the National Public Alerting System, which at the time could broadcast intrusive alerts via television and radio.
But Furey says in statements submitted to the inquiry that his superiors shot down the idea, prompting him to take early retirement.
Furey’s recommendation and its subsequent rejection was discussed during inquiry hearings on Friday, when one of the RCMP’s highest-ranking officers was asked why the police force had initially turned its back on what would later become the Alert Ready system….