Mass Shooting Inquiry: Former Mountie Says He Quit Over Quashed Alert System Proposal

Mass Shooting Inquiry: Former Mountie Says He Quit Over Quashed Alert System Proposal
Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey fields questions during briefing on the Cannabis Control Act in Halifax on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
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The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit the police force.

Mark Furey, who later served as Nova Scotia’s justice minister, says that in 2012, he recommended the RCMP start using the National Public Alerting System, which at the time could broadcast intrusive alerts via television and radio.