Is Minister Furey playing defence on his RCMP father’s interactions with Gabriel Wortman ?

FACEBOOK armchair pundits are jumping to conclusions, on no evidence, when they suspect that Minister Mark Ignatius Furey is delaying the Wortman Public Inquiry merely to cover his own RCMP Division’s interactions with Gabriel Wortman in the roughly thirty years that the killer was living in Nova Scotia and successfully breaking the law.

It could be equally argued - again with no real evidence - that he was covering up the interaction his RCMP father Ignatius Edward (Ed) Furey RCMP Division might have had with Wortman over his long career that proceeded and then overlapped with his son’s.

Ed Furey, like his son, was a big big Liberal : given a major political appointment by the Savage government and then abruptly fired from it by the Donnie Cameron Conservatives. (And SCOC level heavyweight lawyer John G Furey was his lawyer when he successfully sued Cameron’s government !) Trust me on this one , Big Eddie still has friends in this Liberal government and in the Liberal governments at other levels, friends that extend well beyond his own son.

Because based on an extensive investigation by the Globe and Mail, it seems that for 40 years (ie since 1980) Gabriel Wortman was “known to police”, dating back when he was just a young teenager in Riverview New Brunswick, stealing building materials, firing weapons illegally, breaking the speeding laws driving his off-road bike too fast on public highways.

If you ask me - thank you - that youth also included stealing dogs.

Then as an older teenager, running alcohol and tobacco, maybe guns too, into New Brunswick from across the US-Canada border.

Then onto Nova Scotia, doing more of the same - right up to the day he died this year 2020.

Many members of the RCMP and municipal police must have suspected the kid for decades while investigating reports of crimes - that could have included the six members of premier McNeil’s family in law enforcement as well as mountie Mark and father Ed. Hell, throw in Gabriel’s two RCMP uncles as well.

Given their linked lives in crime & crime prevention, all members of the McNeil-Furey-Wortman consort should automatically be in conflict of interest in this matter....