Among a long list of recommendations, the final report of the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting has called for an overhaul of the RCMP.
On April 18–19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people, injured three others, and set fires to multiple houses at locations across Nova Scotia before he was shot and killed by police.
The 3,000-page report on the incident published by the inquiry, titled “Turning the Tide Together,” contains a total of 130 recommendations, 75 of which were directed at the RCMP.
The report identified several failings in the way the RCMP responded to the incident. It found that the Mounties who initially responded to the incident ignored multiple witnesses telling them that the shooter was driving a replica police car. The RCMP did not alert the public to this fact until nearly 12 hours later….