Thousands of Moncton residents are regularly away as part of their job - their kids aren’t all spree killers

Moncton, The Hub of the Maritimes, our  commercial distribution centre and federal government HQ, is just filled, filled I’m tellin’ ya, filled with parents who must go away regularly, as part of their jobs.

Their kids are not growing up to be spree killers.

Yes, Paul Wortman, the father of the Portapique spree killer, did have a job as an industrial salesman that involved travelling a lot through all of New Brunswick meeting his customers and dealing with their technical problems. Yes he was away from home a lot.

But so too were the parents of thousands of other greater Moncton area kids : the sending out of travelling representatives : commercial, not-for-profit, government, is practically the main employer there these days.

These kids miss mom and dad when they are away. But they do not all grow up to be spree killers.

I repeat my conviction that what made Gabriel Wortman so very very different were events that happened BEFORE his dad became a New Brunswick-travelling salesman : the answer to the why of these killings lies in what happened earlier in the States, not in Moncton —- or in Nova Scotia....