Thread by @Tim_Bousquet

Good afternoon. I'm at the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission; today, Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella will testify. You can avoid this coverage by muting the hashtag #MCC

ICYMI, based on her (uninformed) testimony before the #MCC, this morning I called for Brenda Lucki to be removed as Commissioner of the RCMP: halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/the-v…

Here's Kinsella #MCC

#MCC lawyer Rachel Young: did the HRPD do everything the RCMP ask of it?
Kinsella: Yes

Young: if the killer had entered HRM, would you have asked the EMO to issue an Emergency Alert?
Kinsella: the answer is complicated...
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Kinsella: "the real time to have considered that alert would have been much earlier." Had he gotten into HRM, we would have considered it.
Young: you knew about it?
Kinsella: Yes
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Notably, Kinsella dis not sit down for an in-person interview with #MCC staff, but rather responded to questions in writing, once and then in response to follow-up questions

*did* not, rather

Young is asking about post-event supports giving to HRPD employees. While this is necessary, certainly those employees didn't experience anything like the trauma experienced by victim families or RCMP staff
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There aren't a lot of people here today. Just 3 reporters (who I see in the room), and only a tiny number of family members. Some new lawyers, tho.
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Young asks Kinsella about relationships between police agencies. Here's what he said in his written response
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Young: everyone says cops on the streets get along fine, but as you go up the chain of command, it gets strained.
Kinsella: front line people just want to help people.
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There's a long discussion about the RCMP being kicked out of the Nova Scotia Chiefs of Police Association (Kinsella says they weren't kicked out, but they were).
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Kinsella says the RCMP left. I dunno, really, it's a tiny detail I haven't followed
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Young: if the RCMP asks, can the HRPD ERT respond?
Kinsella: yes
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This testimony seems not very interesting or important. There is a better use of my time, so I'll leave this and attend to that better use. If something noteworthy happens, I'll return to it later.