Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston made it clear today his government decided to replace the judge overseeing the Lionel Desmond inquiry because Warren Zimmer’s final report was taking too long to complete.
The provincial fatality inquiry, which was created five years ago, investigated why the Afghanistan war veteran killed three members of his family and himself in their rural Nova Scotia home in January 2017.
Zimmer was set to retire as a provincial court judge in March 2022, a month before the inquiry’s hearings concluded, but his term was extended four times over the past 18 months to allow him to complete the report….