Police Failures and Reforms Highlighted in Nova Scotia Mass Shooting Inquiry

A public inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting found "significant and extensive systemic inadequacies and failures," particularly in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's response, and it assailed authorities for ignoring a litany of warnings about the gunman's history of violence and illegal firearms. The report offered recommendations such as reworking the system for alerting the public to emergencies, taking steps to prevent intimate partner violence, tightening gun laws, and potentially restructuring the RCMP in what could entail a "reconfiguration of policing in Canada." The report came nearly three years after Gabriel Wortman went on a 13-hour rampage across rural Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, 2020, killing 22 people.