The union representing front-line RCMP officers who responded to Portapique, N.S., in April 2020 says it doesn’t want those members to testify at the public inquiry into what happened during the shootings and the search for the gunman.
Nasha Nijhawan, a lawyer with the National Police Federation, told the Mass Casualty Commission there’s a real risk the 17 officers being asked to testify by lawyers for the victims’ families could be re-traumatized by testifying.
“Of course it would be best if everybody could explain in their own first-person voice what they experienced, but at what cost?” Nijhawan said Wednesday.
The federation represents regular and reservist RCMP members below the
