Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Thursday accused the commission that investigated the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting of ignoring both the victims of the crime and the details surrounding illegally smuggled firearms used by the shooter.
“The commission is really an outrage, the way they ignored the victims of the crime that happened,” Poilievre said during a press conference late Thursday.
Poilievre’s comments were made in response to a question on the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC)’s recommendations on firearms. Contained in the commission’s 3,000-page report—which examined the events of April 18–19, 2020, that left 22 people dead and three injured—are 130 recommendations for the RCMP, as well as provincial and federal governments….