Former Nova Scotia justice minister Mark Furey has told the Mass Casualty Commission he encountered "strong opposition" to a proposal to use a public alerting system in 2012, and that opposition played a key role in his decision to leave the force.
The resources that police forces in Nova Scotia need to protect the public and how they'll pay for those resources will soon be finalized through new standards, in a major shift from years of informal agreements that RCMP leaders say have become a "drain."
The mass shooting in April 2020 that scarred Nova Scotians has also strained the fraught relationship between the RCMP and municipal forces in the province, with leaders bringing their feud into the inquiry examining the massacre.
Public trust in law enforcement agencies is undermined every time someone is caught impersonating a police officer, the inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia was told Wednesday.
The Mass Casualty Commission heard various perspectives Wednesday from collectors, academics, lawyers and former officers on police impersonation and paraphernalia.