Harry Bond is blunt in his assessment of the RCMP's role on the night his mother and father died in the Nova Scotia mass shooting - and of the force's potential to reform in the future.
“My trust for the RCMP is gone,” he said during a recent telephone interview from his home near Mahone Bay, N.S., where he's been going over the hundreds of hours of testimony heard at a public inquiry into the April 18-19, 2020 rampage.
“The biggest thing we need is for some of the senior people to say, 'We screwed up. This is what we did wrong' … Otherwise, nothing is going to be solved. This will happen again,” he said. “The RCMP is in for a reckoning. They really need to rethink what they're doing as a police force,” said Michael Boudreau, a criminology professor at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. With the force's missteps unfolding before the public during the mass shooting inquiry, Boudreau said it would be a missed opportunity if the commission's recommendations don't prompt sweeping changes - though he said he's only “mildly optimistic” that will happen.
She's now leading an effort to establish independent, external oversight of the RCMP, which she hopes will provide more accountability and help trigger a cultural change within the force. “They shouldn't be allowed to police themselves, or investigate themselves anymore,” Merlo said. “That's where public faith is eroding. They investigate themselves all the time, and they come back and say everything looks fine.
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