If Premier’s Bro been on duty, May 2011, instead of under a cloud, might 24 still be alive ?

The premier’s brother, Deputy Police Chief Chris McNeil, is by all accounts, a no-nonsense, take charge sort of guy.

Rather like his brother.

KILLED 24 PEOPLE

If he had been on duty in May 2011, when the HRM police call was being made : (A) really push for a search warrant on alleged wannabe cop killer Gabriel Wortman or (B) go through the motion and pass buck back to rural mounties, I believe Chris would have pushed hard for PLAN A, pushed for the search warrant, potentially saving 24 lives in 2020.

But he wasn’t : suspended because of a real messy family situation with the HRM police.

Suspected of looking the other way when one of the HRM Police McNeil clan (can’t remember which - just so many of them) did something off duty that felt ‘iffy’.

This McNeil family whole can of worms would only be revived by an inquiry held just before the premier seeks re-election...