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DELANEY: Established order signs off on Portapique Mass Casualty Commission report

We crave that sense of something being done.

At the end of August of this year, the third and final report of the progress monitoring committee regarding the 2020 Portapique shooting spree was released.

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Chaired by Myra Freeman, a well-ensconced member of Nova Scotia’s political and economic establishment, it provided an update on the status of recommendations made by the previous Mass Casualty Commission (MCC). That blue-ribbon panel was entrusted with reporting on how our systems of policing and government can best prevent such gruesome actions as those perpetrated by that lone gunman on that dreadfully fateful day some near six and one-half years ago.

There are times when the consequences of an act, its meaning and impact, can define our interpretation of what lies behind it. We are a people cultured to embracing the need to be satisfied that acts of immense gravity cannot simply have straightforward explanations. Beyond this, we demand assurances that things will be done to, if not prevent, most certainly lessen their reoccurrence.

We crave that sense of something being done. It allows us a feeling of satisfaction or, perhaps more........

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