N.S. mass shooting: committee member flags lack of action on gender-based violence – Halifax [Video]

A member of the committee monitoring how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting is raising concerns from survivors of gender-based violence about a lack of action.

On Friday, the head of the committee released a report saying the Nova Scotia and federal governments were making good progress on implementing the inquiry’s 130 recommendations.

Domestic violence was a key theme for the commission of inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, which claimed 22 lives on April 18-19, 2020 and began with the gunman’s violent assault on his common-law spouse. The inquiry also heard the killer had a long history of domestic violence.

Kristina Fifield, a social worker and trauma therapist who represents the gender-based violence advocacy sector on the committee, says survivors and those who work with them are telling her they were angry and discouraged …