A former Supreme Court of Canada judge working with the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting says he's worried that the federal Justice Department has been discouraging witnesses from being forthcoming with relevant evidence.
A former Supreme Court of Canada justice working with the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting that left 22 dead says he was concerned to hear a top Mountie say he was advised not to proactively share information relevant to the inquiry. Visitors pay their repects at a memorial honouring the victims of the April 2020 murder rampage in rural Nova Scotia, in Victoria Park in Truro, N.S. on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
In an Aug. 5 letter to the department, Thomas Cromwell cited advice the department gave Nova Scotia RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather before he testified before the commission of inquiry on July 28. Leather testified that in an earlier interview with commission lawyers, he didn’t say anything about emails or a phone calls related to an April 28, 2020, meeting he attended with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki because Justice Department lawyers had suggested he take “a reactive posture.”
The April 28 teleconference, led by Lucki, focused on the effectiveness of the Nova Scotia RCMP’s news conferences in the days after a man disguised as a Mountie fatally shot 22 people on April 18-19, 2020.
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