now we know WHY the mounties don’t want a PUBLIC inquiry

1757 : the last time the RED SERGE bosses executed one of their own for being a coward instead of a leader...

Unless Justin Trudeau throws the McNeil police brothers and the Furey Mountie brothers under the public inquiry bus to divert attention from his growing WE-F-UP Scandal , we are unlikely to ever learn the details of the RCMP Debacle of April 18-19th 2020.

The next best effort might be this from veteran journalist Paul Palango in the HALIFAX EXAMINER.

I can’t ever hope to recount the number of basic mistakes the mounties made over those fatal 13 hours —- and that Palango details.

But I believe Paul’s account shows that they ALL stemmed from the mountie tradition of keeping everything ‘in house’  ——- including the truth.

They seemed determined to retain the appearance of always being in control and always on top of the situation, to uphold the mounties’ proud traditions, even above saving their employers’ (us, the NS public) lives.

They rejected sharing any of the responsibility & credit with local police with acute local knowledge, instead bringing in baby mounties from New Brunswick who presumably had just arrived there by stork from somewhere out West.

How else to account for a tape recording of a mountie telling an incredulous Truro cop that they weren’t even aware that Truro HAD a hospital ! (Or paved roads ? Or piped water ?)

There can’t be many normal adults in Atlantic Canada who aren’t aware that Truro is a very large and very central community in Nova Scotia and thus to surmise it has a hospital.

Unfortunately, we don’t put normal Maritimers in charge of saving our lives : we hire green-behind-the-ears mounties from places west of Winnipeg instead.

But the top Mounties in NS, who had a much longer sojourn here, frankly weren’t much better : again we hear tapes of them ‘advising’ ground forces from central HQ of the current whereabouts of Gabriel Wortman but in fact twice mixing up communities that were more than 30 km apart !

Palango’s account, this time, is not discussing the mistakes made by two levels of police in two provinces over a 35 year period that allowed a life-long violent criminal to skate away repeatedly from charges the rest of us who certainly have faced.

In that sense, it doesn’t claim the mounties on the ground the night of April 18th could have saved any of the first 13 dead.

But it does make clear that the other 13 dead should have survived, would have survived if the mounties had ....played by their own rule book : that to save lives is job one.

Instead most seemed to have stayed well down in their funk holes - with the few braver mounties being told to stand down and not engage the killer.

Basically then, a real public inquiry would expose widespread cowardly behaviour of the sort that got Admiral Byng shot by British firing squad all those years ago...