RCMP Commissioner Lucki grilled at N.S. inquiry about failure to implement reforms

HALIFAX — RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is facing questions today at a public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting on why the police force didn’t move more swiftly to implement recommendations for reform.

Josh Bryson, a lawyer for family members of two people killed in the shootings, asked Lucki why the RCMP hadn’t implemented recommendations from past reviews calling for investigators to attend crime scenes in a “timely fashion.”

Bryson notes that police took more than 18 hours before they entered the home of Peter and Joy Bond, who were among the 22 people killed by a gunman driving a replica police vehicle on April 18-19, 2020. 

Lucki said Bryson raised “many, many good points,” and she speculated that the RCMP failed to properly communicate lessons learned from past cases to rank-and-file members.