informal three party agreement : go slow on any Wortman inquiry

rare ALL-PARTY agreement on Wortman inquiry

In 2001, Gabriel Wortman pleaded guilty to a violent assault on a child and agreed - on Scout’s Honour - not to own any guns for a while.

I say on Scout’s Honour because the police did not check to see if he indeed had any.

(Hint : he did, illegal ones he had smuggled in from the US.)

On and on it went, time after time ; reports of violence and illegal stashes of guns involving the rich white millionaire and police avoiding judges and search warrants like the plague.

All police forces - and political parties of all stripes - fear the anti-gun control lobby that is led mostly, but by no means exclusively, by Tory party supporters.

The WASP-led lobby has a simple philosophy:

Stopping black & aboriginal kids for a busted taillight and ‘discovering’ guns and dope - great !

“Un-called for” “fishing expeditions” to search homes of rich white guys, based upon reports of illegal or improperly stored guns -  a conspiracy by latte-loving enviro fems. Etc.

The Grits & the Cons shared power in Ottawa between 2001 and 2020, at times with minority support from the N-Dippers.

In Nova Scotia, the Cons, Grits and N-Dippers all led the government during those years.

Any public inquiry is bound to appropriate blame, with specific years attached.

Years voters can assign to each of the three parties in power at the time.

So : we get muted, muted as in rare and barely heard - muted & timid calls for a public inquiry, eventually (just before the Second Coming) , from all six party leaders at both levels of government.

All aid - all aid short of help - for the victims’ families : passing the puck, saying as little as possible.

Folks, lay off blaming just the RCMP for this disaster : ditto the Grits : slash a few back handers hard at the Con & Dipper forwards for a change.

They deserve it....