Nova Scotia attacks: police heavily criticised for failures in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting

RCMP response condemned after gunman drove a fake police car around for more than 13 hours, evading capture and killing 22 people

A cascade of failures within Canada’s federal police worsened the country’s deadliest mass shooting, a public inquiry has concluded, in a damning indictment that found the force has shown little interest in reforming in the years since.

The Mass Casualty Commission, a joint provincial and federal inquiry, was investigating the 2020 shootings in Portapique Nova Scotia, in which a gunman driving a fake police car spent more than 13 hours evading capture and killing 22 people.