N.S. news: Mass shooting progress report released Wednesday [Video]

HALIFAX –

The RCMP released today a strategy that they say will ensure “meaningful change” results from their response to the public inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives.

Commissioner Mike Duheme issued a statement admitting the national police force is aware that its previous responses to other reviews and reports have “not always been fulsome.”

As well, Duheme says the RCMP haven’t been transparent about the work they have done to change.

That’s why the RCMP have created a so-called “sector focused on reform,” which the Mounties say represents a “concrete demonstration of our commitment to change.”

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The report comes three months after the police force’s self-imposed deadline passed, and almost a year after the federal-provincial public inquiry released its final report.

The Mass Casualty Commissioninvestigated the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history and …