The inquiry into Canada’s worst mass killing, which took place in Nova Scotia nearly two years ago, plans to hear from the common-law wife of the gunman and from the first three RCMP officers to arrive on the scene.
HALIFAX—The inquiry into Canada’s worst mass killing plans to hear from the common-law wife of the gunman and from the first three RCMP officers to arrive on the scene.
But that hurdle was cleared in a courthouse in Dartmouth, N.S., on Wednesday, when the Crown referred the case to the Restorative Justice Program, an “alternate process where people charged with offences can take responsibility and be held accountable.” Police have previously said Banfield had no advance knowledge of how the ammunition would eventually be used. If she completes the program, the charges against her will be withdrawn.
“Counsel for the participant families did not have to convince us that Ms. Banfield has important evidence to give regarding the Portapique foundational documents,” said Macdonald. “It has never been a matter of if the commission wants to hear from the Lisa Banfield but rather how and when we could best do so.”
There has been debate over whether individual Mounties would be asked to testify, after the attorney general and the RCMP’s union argued that forcing them to revisit the events around the April 2020 shootings could retraumatize them — appealing to the inquiry to abide by its stated “trauma-informed” approach to the proceedings.
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