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If they gave out medals for tone deafness, Nova Scotia’s justice minister would be on the top of the podium this week.
When reporters expressed surprise at his candour, it didn’t occur to Johns that he might want to reword his statement. As justice minister, Johns, of all people, knows that the massacre began with an act of domestic violence inflicted by the murderer on his spouse. And yet, he was happy to respectfully disagree with them and to say so publicly on the anniversary of a massacre that was connected to intimate partner violence.
"The pervasiveness of domestic violence and the harm it causes in our communities is not something that should ever be minimized and I am truly sorry that my words did so. This government, my department and I agree that domestic violence is an epidemic,” according to the statement attributed to Johns.
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