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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:25:30 -0300
Subject: Methinks folks should tune in and listen to Paul Palango and
his all knowing pumpkin before the show goes "Poof" N'esy Pas?
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the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - July 17, 2022
Methinks the very lazy corrupt media sheople love to republish Mikey MacDonald's spin on the Mass Casualty Commission Bullshit then polish the turd with their 2 bits worth. Others just use their photos and write their own spin.
Hence they should not complain that I do the same within my Blog in light of the fact I duly notified them of what I have been up to for many years N'esy Pas?
Deja Vu Anyone??
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:21:56 +0000
Subject: RE: Attn Paul Manly I guess you have to rely on the lawyers
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Canada’s top Mountie, Nova Scotia’s mass shooting probe and some missing pages: Here’s what we know so far
RCMP faced more scrutiny for initially removing pages from subpoenaed documents recording Lucki’s anger at refusal to release details about the guns.
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HALIFAX—As controversy swirls around the RCMP, the Liberal government and allegations of interference in the investigation of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history, missing RCMP documentation is the latest development to take centre stage.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki this week faced accusations that she sought to interfere with the Nova Scotia Mounties’ investigation into the province’s April 2020 massacre, potentially at the behest of then-public safety minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to grease the wheels for upcoming gun control legislation.
Lucki, Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have denied that there was any interference with the Nova Scotia investigation.
On Friday, the RCMP — and the Department of Justice by extension — faced scrutiny for initially removing pages from subpoenaed documents that recorded Lucki’s anger at the Nova Scotia RCMP’s refusal to release details about the guns involved in the shooting. The Nova Scotia Mounties had said doing so would compromise their investigation.
The missing pages, which described Lucki telling a Nova Scotia contingent that she’d promised the public safety minister and the PMO the gun details would be released, were only handed over to the inquiry in May of this year, three months after the RCMP had provided the same documents without those pages.
Here’s what’s happened so far, and what’s likely to happen next.
What’s the controversy exactly?
Days after the mass shooting that saw 22 people killed by a gunman in northern Nova Scotia, there was a meeting between national and Nova Scotia RCMP.
Notes from that meeting, released this week by the public inquiry now reviewing the tragedy, show it included RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and, from the Nova Scotia side, Assistant Commissioner Lee Bergerman, the province’s commanding officer; Supt. Darren Campbell; and strategic communications director Lia Scanlan.
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In press briefings to that point, N.S. RCMP had withheld specifics on the weapons used by the gunman, saying that identifying the specific guns would compromise the investigation.
At the meeting, Lucki “was obviously upset” that N.S. RCMP had not released the specifics, Campbell’s handwritten notes indicate.
“The commissioner accused us (me) of disrespecting her by not following her instructions,” his notes said.
At the time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was in the process of pushing through an order-in-council that would ban the sale of 1,500 models of assault-style firearms.
Campbell’s notes indicate that when he attempted to explain the reasoning for not releasing this information, Lucki said that “we (the Nova Scotia RCMP) didn’t understand, that this was tied to pending gun control legislation that would make officers and public safer by or through this legislation.”
“The commissioner said that she had promised the Minister of Public Safety and the Prime Minister’s Office that the RCMP (we) would release this information,” wrote Campbell.
In an interview with the Mass Casualty Commission in February of this year, Scanlan also expressed frustration, saying Blair and Trudeau were “weighing in on what we could and could not say” in press briefings.
“That is 100 per cent Minister Blair and the Prime Minister,” she said. “And we have a commissioner that does not push back.”
Why was that bad, if it happened?
The notes from that conference seem to indicate that Lucki was willing to interfere with RCMP operations — the investigation of the mass shooting — to advance a gun-control agenda championed by the Prime Minister’s Office and by the public safety minister at the time, Blair.
Based on Lucki’s comments — as reported by Campbell — it appears that she was taking her marching orders from Blair and from the PMO.
If true, that’s problematic because it compromises the principle of “operational independence,” a central tenet of policing that dictates that politicians should never dictate or direct police operations. In principle, it’s a noble concept; in practice, the definition is somewhat fuzzy.
Lucki said late Tuesday that she would never take action that would jeopardize an investigation. Blair, now the emergency preparedness minister, denied that Lucki had ever promised him that the RCMP would release specific information about the guns. He’s also denied that he told anyone what the RCMP should communicate about their own investigation.
Trudeau, speaking from a Commonwealth summit in Rwanda, said Thursday there was no “undue influence or pressure” put on the RCMP in the days following the mass shooting, and that only police determine what information to release and when.
What position does this leave the RCMP commissioner in?
Lucki’s tenure atop the RCMP has not been without controversy.
In 2020, she drew criticism for saying she had struggled over the definition of systemic racism and its existence in her police force. Shortly thereafter, she changed tack and acknowledged that systemic racism was indeed present in the RCMP, drawing the ire of some members.
That same year, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association filed a lawsuit against her for delaying the release of a civilian watchdog report into RCMP spying on Indigenous and climate advocates. And a series of on-camera incidents sparking allegations of excessive use of force by RCMP officers prompted then-Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Perry Bellegarde to call for her replacement.
Trudeau said this week he still has confidence in Lucki to lead the RCMP. His support echoed that of current public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, and Blair.
What’s the deal with the missing notes?
On June 15, 2021, the Mass Casualty Commission issued a subpoena to the RCMP for its entire investigative file related to the mass shooting.
Eight months later, on Feb. 14, 2022, as part of that file, the RCMP turned over the notes of senior RCMP officers, including Campbell’s handwritten notes covering the period from April 19, 2020 to June 16, 2020. Campbell’s notes covered 132 pages.
Campbell was in the habit of writing the date in large numbers across the page in his notes like this: 2020-04-27.
In those notes turned over by the RCMP in February, his dates jumped from 2020-04-27 to 2020-04-29 — April 27, 2020, to April 29, 2020 — with no April 28 in between.
April 28, 2020 was the date of the conference with Lucki, during which Campbell’s notes reflected Lucki being upset about Campbell not releasing specific information on the guns used in the mass shooting, and noting her saying that she had promised the public safety minister and the PMO that she would do so.
More than three months later, on May 31, 2022, the commission received another batch of documents from the Department of Justice, which again included Campbell’s handwritten notes.
This time the notes numbered 136 pages and included the four pages of Campbell’s notes from the conference with Lucki, dated, as was his habit, with 2020-04-28 written across the page.
“The Commission sought an explanation from the Department of Justice about why four pages were missing from the original disclosure of Supt. Campbell’s notes,” the Mass Casualty Commission’s investigations director, Barbara McLean, said in a statement Friday.
“The Commission is also demanding an explanation for any further material that has been held back from disclosed material for privilege or other review where the fact that this has occurred is not clear on what has been produced to the Commission.
“In short, the Commission is seeking assurance that nothing else has been held back as per direction from subpoenas.”
The RCMP did not respond to a request from the Star seeking an explanation for the missing pages.
What do the victims families’ think?
“Our clients are understandably troubled by what they heard,” Michael Scott of Patterson Law, which represents most of the families of the victims of the shooting, said in a statement this week. “In the days following April 19, 2020, all efforts should have been focused on supporting victims, their families and the active investigation being carried out by local RCMP.
“Interfering in those efforts, to exploit a perceived political opportunity or otherwise, would have been inexcusable. We trust that the Mass Casualty Commission recognizes the importance of determining the truth of these allegations and the need for fulsome cross-examination of the relevant witnesses.”
When will we hear more from the players involved?
Campbell and Lucki are scheduled to appear as witnesses at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry in coming months, as are Assistant Commissioner Lee Bergerman, the province’s commanding officer at the time, and Chief Supt. Chris Leather, who was the critical incident commander the weekend of the shootings.
But a parliamentary public safety committee has also called upon many of the same players to testify as it digs into the allegations of political interference into the RCMP investigation.
Lucki and Blair are required to appear before the committee no later than July 25, and Campbell and Scanlan are being called as well. Also tapped for testimony before the committee are Bergerman and Leather.
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:45 AM
Subject: Remember me Mr Travers? Say Hey to Bev Busson for me will ya?
All her cops are ducking me.
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:30:08 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: My cell # is 506 434 1379 Stress test my integrity why don't ya?
To: “Travers, Jim” <jtravers@thestar.ca>
What you say is true, that is why I must sue.. We all know why
your fellow haughty snotty Upper Canadian reporters have ignored the
Code of Ethics for journalists for years. The freedom of the press is
a myth. They do what they are told. N'est Pas? However your publicly
held company is in a world of trouble with me.
If you doubt me ask Marie Beyette your company's
Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to ask the
following dudes about my issues about Tax Fraud Securities Fraud, Bank
Fraud and Murder. Rest assured the RCMP ain't gonna tell you shit.
Theses dudes are your directors and I have already proven many times
that their companies are as crooked as Hell. The Torys oufit was the
most fun of all just ask Lord Conrad Black and his sneaky lawyer Eddy
Greenspan about the doings between me and the corrupt Yankee US
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald just acrost the 49th from you.
SARABJIT S. MARWAH (He should talk to Deborah Alexander)
Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer, Bank of Nova Scotia
RONALD W. OSBORNE (he should talk to Robert C. Pozen and Jeffery Carp)
Chairman, Sun Life Financial Inc.
THE HON. FRANK IACOBUCCI (He should talk to his partner John Laskin)
Chairman of the Board, Torstar Corporation
Counsel, Torys LLP
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
“Travers, Jim” <jtravers@thestar.ca> wrote:
Your integrity is beyond my purview.
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From: David Amos
To: Travers, Jim
Sent: Sat Nov 04 09:08:59 2006
Subject: My cell # is 506 434 1379 Stress test my integrity why don't ya?
David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:51:33 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: Cya'll in Court Johnny Boy
To: premier@gnb.ca, kelly.lamrock@gnb.ca,
Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-
mary.schryer@gnb.ca, rick.miles@gnb.ca, jack.keir@gnb.ca,
Bernard.LeBlanc@gnb.ca, Cheryl.Lavoie@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca,
john.foran@gnb.ca, giuliano.zaccardelli@rcmp-grc.
CC: jonesr@cbc.ca, mleger@stu.ca, jwalker@stu.ca, plee@stu.ca,
oldmaison@yahoo.com, belord@gnb.ca, DannyWilliams@gov.nl.ca,
davies.carl@nbpub.com, bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, carl.urquhart@gnb.ca,
claude.landry@gnb.ca, mike.olscamp@gnb.ca, info@pco-bcp.gc.ca
David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:57:25 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Cya'l in Court Johnny Boy
To: john.logan@gnb.ca, christina.winsor@gnb.ca
Your assistant Katherine Wilson really pissed me off after a long wait
on hold to talk to you on the phone today. I read the news today and
just shook my head at the nonsense of it all.
Wilson claimed that she was well aware of my matters and that all of
your associates employed as Crown Attorneys have advised me to the
best of your abilities. How can that be? I have not been able to speak
to any of you since I spoke to the crook, Jeff Mockler over two years
ago and that was immediately after I came screaming out of jail in the
USA. I saw red as I read his words to me then. They were obviously
sent when he thought I would never get out of that Yankee jail.
To date I have not received one response in writng let alone speak to
anyone employed by the Crown as legal counsel, Despite the
unbelievable volume of material I have faxed emailed and delivered in
hand and byway of the Canada Post, you all failed to act within the
scope of your employment and certainly do not deserve a raise. In fact
you should all go to jail, not pass go and not allowed to accept even
200, dollars more from the taxpayers of New Brunswick.
The text of the fowarded email I sent last night to you political bosses
and many others says enough about my pending lawsuits.
The Governor General of Canada is the highest authority in Canada
who speaks in the name of the Crown N'est Pas? Well I received that
letter mere days before I was falsely imprisoned in the USA.
Well you can easily see that she affirms over two years ago that I had
done the right thing with regards to provincial law enforcement
authorities just as Deputy Prime Minister Landslide Annie McLellan
had suggested I do before I came back home to New Brunswick to run
for a federal seat in the malevolent 38th Parlaiment.
Wheras you refused to talk to me today Johnny Boy Logan, may I
suggest that you talk to the RCMP or some of your associates
starting with Jeff Mockler. I have had enough of your obvious malice.
I will leave you to wonder as to who else will read my opinion of you
and your legal cohorts in short order. Cya'll in Court.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
“Jan 3rd, 2004
Mr. David R. Amos
143 Alvin Avenue
Milton, MA 02186
U.S.A.
Dear Mr. Amos
Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to my
predecessor, the Honourble Wayne Easter, regardingyour safety.
I apologize for the delay in responding.
If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only
suggest that you contact the police of local jurisdiction. In addition,
any evidence of criminal activity should be brought to their attention
since the police are in the best position to evaluate the information
and take action as deemed appropriate.
I trust that this information is satisfactory.
Yours sincerely
A. Anne McLellan”
David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:43:33 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: BOOO ya Bastards
To: premier@gnb.ca, kelly.lamrock@gnb.ca,
Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-
mary.schryer@gnb.ca, rick.miles@gnb.ca, jack.keir@gnb.ca,
Bernard.LeBlanc@gnb.ca, Cheryl.Lavoie@gnb.ca,
greg.byrne@gnb.ca, john.foran@gnb.ca,
giuliano.zaccardelli@rcmp-grc.
CC: jonesr@cbc.ca, mleger@stu.ca, jwalker@stu.ca,
plee@stu.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, belord@gnb.ca,
DannyWilliams@gov.nl.ca, davies.carl@nbpub.com,
bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, carl.urquhart@gnb.ca,
claude.landry@gnb.ca, mike.olscamp@gnb.ca,
info@pco-bcp.gc.ca
David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:41:38 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: BOOO ya Bastards
To: jacques_poitras@cbc.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca,
Deb_Nobes@cbc.ca, spinks08@hotmail.com,
Duane.Rousselle@unb.ca, ndpnpd@nbnet.nb.ca,
mackay01@canada.com,PoliticsNB
oldmaison.wcie@gmail.com, handsofnothing@yahoo.ca,
gcox@citizenspress.org, stevengerickson@yahoo.com
CC: MacKay.P@parl.gc.ca, Day.S@parl.gc.ca,
Moore.R@parl.gc.ca, info@pco-bcp.gc.ca,
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william.gould@gnb.ca, cjcw@nbnet.nb.ca,
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September 11th, 2004
Dear Mr. Amos,
On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson,
I acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and CD regarding
corruption, one received from you directly, and the other forwarded
to us by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
I regret to inform you that the Governor General cannot intervene in
matters that are the responsibility of elected officials and courts of
Justice of Canada.
You already contacted the various provincial authorities regarding
your concerns, and these were the appropriate steps to take.
Yours sincerely.
Renee Blanchet
Office of the Secretary to the
Governor General
Criminal Code PART IV OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION
OF LAW AND JUSTICE
Corruption and Disobedience 126. (1) Every one who, without
lawful excuse, contravenes an Act of Parliament by wilfully doing
anything that it forbids or by wilfully omitting to do anything that
it requires to be done is, unless a punishment is expressly provided
by law, guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding two years.(2) Any proceedings in respect of a
contravention of or conspiracy to contravene an Act mentioned in
subsection (1), other than this Act, may be instituted at the instance
of the Government of Canada and conducted by or on behalf of that
Government.R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 126; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.),
s. 185(F).
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Crown lawyers receive help in fight for pay raise
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 | 9:26 AM AT
CBC News <http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Lawyers who work for the New Brunswick government say a previously
secret report may help their case for a bigger pay raise.
The lawyers had to go to court to see the report, which proves they're
underpaid, they say. Government lawyers aren't unionized and can't
strike, so have no leverage in asking the government to raise their pay.
Last year, the government commissioned a study of what Crown
lawyers make across the country as part of a review of salaries.
The government wouldn't give the Crown Counsel Association a copy
of the report when it was done, so the association used the Right to
Information Act to take the government to court, and a judge ordered
the report released.
Association president John Logan says the report appears to show
government lawyers here are paid less than their counterparts in
other provinces.
“The association of Crown counsel are reviewing the report and intend
to use it as background information.”
The association is hoping to meet with the new attorney general to
talk about the report, but government spokesperson Christina Winsor
says a good pay plan is already in place.
“The current pay plan for the lawyers is an average of three per cent
a year over four years, and that is consistent and slightly above
inflation rates, which is averaging about two per cent right now.”
Winsor says a new study will be commissioned in 2009 when the
current schedule of pay increases expires
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The Honourable John B. Laskin
Justice John B. Laskin practised litigation for more than 30 years in the Toronto office of Torys LLP. In his broad trial and appellate practice, he represented individuals, corporations, governments and their agencies, public institutions, industry associations, public interest groups, and Indigenous organizations. He appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Courts, every level of court in Ontario, the courts of seven other provinces and territories, domestic and international arbitrations, and a variety of administrative tribunals.Justice Laskin is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of Litigation Counsel of America, and has been a member of the Ontario Regional Committee of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. He has spoken, written and taught frequently on matters of public law and advocacy, and was co-editor of Canadian Charter of Rights Annotated. Before entering private practice, he was a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.
Born in Thunder Bay, Justice Laskin holds a B.A. (with distinction) from York University, an LL.B. (as Gold Medallist) from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a past President of the University of Toronto Law Alumni Association and was actively involved in the founding of the Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. In 2015, he was awarded the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Law Society Medal, given for outstanding service within the legal profession where the service is in accordance with the highest ideals of the profession.
Justice Laskin was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 21, 2017.
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Wife of N.S. mass killer explains why she didn’t report earlier violence to police
Lisa Banfield struggled to maintain her composure as she described how her partner beat her in 2003 as witnesses looked on, and she offered new details about what happened when her spouse threatened to kill his parents in 2010.
It was the first time she has spoken publicly about her life with the killer, and the inquiry’s decision to spare her from facing cross-examination proved contentious. Lawyers from a firm representing families of 14 of the victims, as well as about 20 of those family members, walked out of the hearing in protest before it ended.
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The inquiry has heard Banfield was beaten and badly injured by Gabriel Wortman on the night of April 18, 2020, at the beginning of his shooting rampage that would claim 22 lives. She told investigators that she escaped into the woods and emerged the next morning to tell police that her partner was still at large and driving a vehicle that looked exactly like an RCMP cruiser.
Banfield said she will remain forever haunted by her decision to flee, as she wonders if her spouse might have harmed her and then left others alone.
“I often think would any of those people have died? So that is something that haunts me all the time, because I feel that they weren’t targeted. He was looking for me in the beginning,” she said.
Banfield’s testimony was at times painful and dramatic as she described what happened in June 2010 when Wortman’s uncle alerted Halifax police that his nephew had threatened to kill his parents over a property dispute.
Banfield recalled how the killer had been drinking heavily and fired a bullet into the wall of their home in Dartmouth, N.S., terrifying her. When a Halifax police officer arrived at their door, Banfield admitted she lied when asked about the death threats and whether her spouse owned any weapons.
When commission lawyer Gillian Hnatiw asked why she lied, Banfield sobbed as she explained.
“He
had the handgun by the nightstand, and he said. ‘If any police come,
I’m shooting,”’ she said. “So, when they asked me that, I didn’t want
them to go in, because I didn’t want them
(police) to get hurt.”
When an RCMP officer showed up at the couple’s summer home in Portapique, N.S., after the death threat was reported, Wortman insisted he didn’t own any firearms, aside from an old musket and another antique weapon suspended near the fireplace and “filled with wax,” Banfield testified.
She confirmed that the officer in question was Const. Greg Wiley, who had known Wortman for years and later told investigators that he had visited his Portapique home 16 times.
Hnatiw also asked Banfield about a violent assault at a gathering in Sutherland Lake, north of Portapique. In earlier interviews with the inquiry, she indicated the attack took place in 2001 or 2002, but she confirmed Friday the actual date was 2003.
She testified that when she tried to leave the bush party, Wortman became irate. As the pair drove away in his Jeep, he started punching her, she said.
“And as I was driving back on the back road, he’s yelling at me,” she said as the hearing room fell silent. “He started smacking me in my face. I’m thinking, ‘I’ve never had anybody hit me before … and I’m trying to drive. He just kept whacking me in the head.”
She said she jumped out of the vehicle and ran into the woods. He ran after her and caught her.
“He grabbed by the hair and was punching me, and I’m trying to protect myself,” she said. “I’m screaming. He pulled me out by the road … and then I could see these two (all-terrain vehicles) and their lights were on me. He looked up and he dropped me.”
Banfield said Wortman was later placed in the back of a police cruiser and taken back to their home in Portapique.
Asked why she declined to report the assault to police, Banfield replied: “That’s the first time anybody hit me, and I didn’t want to get anybody in trouble. I just thought, ‘I’m walking away.”’
Hnatiw also asked Banfield about the early stages of the couple’s relationship, which started in 2001 after they met at a bar in downtown Halifax. Banfield said that on their first date, he showed up with two dozen long-stemmed roses. “I thought that was over the top,” she said.
But later that night, she was impressed by his reaction when his car was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by a young woman. “He approached the two young girls in the vehicle. He was smiling,” she said. “He said, ‘It’s OK.’ He was very calm. I thought, ‘He’s a good guy.”’
Earlier this week, the commission released a document based on evidence provided by Banfield during interviews with the RCMP and the inquiry detailing the killer’s long history of violence toward her. It said she would not face cross-examination, mainly because she could be traumatized by having to relive the violence she endured.
Still, lawyer Michael Scott, whose firm represents families of 14 of the victims, says the decision to limit questioning will leave lingering doubts about Banfield’s testimony.
Nick Beaton, husband of Kristen Beaton, takes a break outside the
room as Lisa Banfield, the common-law wife of Gabriel Wortman, testifies
at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural
Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on Friday, July 15, 2022.
Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica police
cruiser, murdered 22 people., including Kristen Beaton. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Andrew Vaughan.
Michael Scott from the Patterson Law team, representing the
majority of families of victims, announces that they are leaving the
inquiry as Lisa Banfield, the common-law wife of Gabriel Wortman,
testifies at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders
in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on Friday, July
15, 2022. Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica
police cruiser, murdered 22 people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan.
Scott, several other lawyers in his firm and about 20 family members the firm represents walked out of the hearing in the afternoon. “We’ve decided with our clients we’ve heard enough and we’ll be leaving for the rest of the day,” he said.
“I don’t know if Ms. Banfield is lying, I don’t know if she’s telling the truth, I don’t know if Ms. Banfield is mistaken, because we don’t have an opportunity to ask her any questions.”
In the afternoon testimony, Hnatiw asked Banfield whether she ever suspected her spouse might harm others, given she knew he owned a mock RCMP cruiser, illegal guns and a stockpile of gas and money.
She replied she regarded it as related to his paranoia about the pandemic. “He was talking crazy, and I would pass it off because I didn’t want to listen to what he was saying,” she said.
During the 13 hours he was at large, the killer fatally shot 22 people, including a pregnant woman and a Mountie. He was shot dead by two Mounties on the morning of April 19, 2020.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 15, 2022.
‘I was so scared’: Tears, anguish — and a walkout — as N.S. mass killer’s wife testifies
The gunman’s abusive and violent behaviour toward Lisa Banfield has been documented in previous testimony given to the Mass Casualty Commission, but victims’ lawyers have questions, which they won’t be allowed to ask her at the inquiry.
HALIFAX —Flanked by her sisters, Lisa Banfield took to the podium Friday as the most anticipated witness in the five-month run, thus far, of the inquiry into Nova Scotia’s worst mass shooting.
Her mouth set in a tight line, Banfield put her hand on the Bible and took an oath, beginning her first public appearance since her common-law husband, Gabriel Wortman, killed 22 people and torched several houses in a 13-hour rampage over April 18-19, 2020.
Looking visibly distraught, she faced a full room — some 200 people crowded into the Nova Scotia Ballroom at the Marriott, who had come looking for some kind of insight into killings that shocked the country.
In dramatic and emotional fashion, Banfield told the inquiry of her abuse at the hands of the gunman, of her fear for her safety and that of her family, of his penchant for collecting guns and police paraphernalia, and of the events of April 18, when what was supposed to be the celebration of their 19th anniversary went horribly wrong.
Before that night was out, she had been assaulted and confined in the back of the gunman’s replica RCMP car, from which she managed to escape. The killer, meanwhile, roamed the neighbourhood in Portapique, killing 13 people there before fleeing into the night. The next morning he would begin killing again, before eventually being shot dead by police at a gas station.
For families of victims wanting to know why their loved ones were killed, there was little solace; Banfield, in her only day of testimony, had much guilt, but few answers for them.
“This is what haunts me,” she said, in tears, to the inquiry. “It’s because I feel like he was targeting me and my family. And if I didn’t get out of that car, I often think, ‘Would any of those people have died?’
“That’s something that haunts me all the time, because I feel that they weren’t targeted. That he was looking for me in the beginning.”
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Banfield described her escape into the woods surrounding the gunman’s warehouse, eventually crossing to the other side of the road, where she heard two men.
“I looked around because my back was sore, so I found a stick and I propped myself up and I started walking in the direction where I could hear the two guys talking … freaking out,” she said, her voice cracking.
“And as I’m getting closer, the stick broke. So, I dropped to my knees, and there was another log and I thought, ‘I don’t have it in me to crawl over this and try to prop myself up again.
“And then I heard, ‘Hey boys,’ or something. And — ‘bang!’ ‘bang!’ — and then there was nothing. And then I just crawled back to the log and just hid there.”
She was sure, she said, it had been the sound of the gunman killing another of his victims. It’s not clear exactly who that might have been.
“I’m thinking, ‘Should I go see if they’re OK?’ But I was so scared, and I didn’t want to move,” she said, in tears.
At one point, she wondered if she was hallucinating, she said, because she could see the shadow of somebody with a gun that looked like a rifle. She wondered if her mind was playing tricks on her.
She hid there by the log until morning, she said, then went to a neighbour’s house and called the police.
As Friday’s testimony went on, and the questions kept coming, Banfield seemed to become more comfortable, her posture more confident, her voice stronger.
But that confidence gave way when she began to relate some of the abuse she had faced at the hands of the gunman.
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When commission counsel Gillian Hnatiw questioned her about the guns that her spouse kept, Banfield said she didn’t think of reporting the weapons to police; that she wasn’t afraid that the gunman would use the guns on others, but that she was afraid that he would use them on her.
“There was a couple of times, where if we had a fight, he’d put the gun to my head to scare me and say that he could blow off my head,” she said tearfully. “So, I was scared. I said, ‘I swear I’m not going to say anything.’”
For all the powerful testimony, there was little new information revealed that had not already been gleaned from Banfield’s previous interviews with the RCMP, and an additional one with the Mass Casualty Commission.
The families of Wortman’s victims left the inquiry en masse in the afternoon, frustrated over what they saw as the inquiry’s inability to unearth the answers they have been seeking.
“We’ve decided with our clients that we’ve heard enough,” said Michael Scott of Patterson Law, which represents most of the victims’ families, during an afternoon break in the proceedings. “We’ll be leaving for the rest of the day.
“Nothing we’ve heard today has allayed any of our concerns about the way Ms. Banfield has been handled,” said Scott. “We haven’t heard any answers to any of the relevant questions about April 2020.”
Most of that frustration stems from the commission’s decision to limit Banfield’s questioning to the commission’s own counsel, rejecting requests from the victims’ families to allow their lawyers to independently cross-examine her. That decision was made in order to avoid further traumatizing Banfield, in line with the inquiry’s trauma-informed approach, according to the commission. Police have said they don’t believe Banfield was involved in the mass killing.
“Right now, what we have is evidence from Ms. Banfield that is entirely untested, some of it’s contradictory, and it leaves us in a position where we don’t know any more today than we did yesterday,” Scott said.
“I don’t know if Ms. Banfield is lying. I don’t know if Ms. Banfield is telling the truth. I don’t know if Ms. Banfield is mistaken, because we don’t have an opportunity to ask her any questions.”
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Ryan Farrington, whose mother, Dawn Gulenchyn, and stepfather, Frank Gulenchyn, were killed and their house burned that night in April 2020, had been hoping for some answers about how and why his parents died. He didn’t get them, he said.
“We’re not going to get any answers that we want to know about if our lawyers cannot ask (for) them,” he said. “So, yeah, the process, to me, is flawed. This entire public inquiry is flawed. I think it’s been a big waste of money right from the start.”
A frustrated Scott McLeod, brother of victim Sean McLeod, said he found himself no closer to answers than he was two and a half years ago.
“Why would he have targeted my brother, who was so far out of the way, and start this all over again the second day? What I want to know is, what was it that set him off that bad with my brother?” he asked earlier in the day.
“She’s not going to give us anything extra,” McLeod said of Banfield. “She’s the one witness that should know more than anybody else.
“With the upcoming Mounties (testifying), they’re setting aside two days for each of them. So why wouldn’t you set aside two days for Lisa Banfield?”
Shortly before she left a significantly emptier room than she had entered, Banfield was asked by commission counsel Hnatiw about the psychological impact of the past two and a half years.
“The fact that people would think that we would have anything to do with this … our family feels for all those people and we’re not angry that they’re angry, because, if it was my family, I would feel the same way,” said a tearful Banfield.
“But it’s just angering, because he did this, and I didn’t. And I would never contribute anything like that.
“It’s really hard because it’s scary to think that people are angry and that somebody could come after me or my family if they think that we had anything to do with it.”
The Mass Casualty Commission continues its inquiry Monday.
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MCC- DAY 50 - LISA BANFIELD... AND HANDLERS
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https://www.facebook.com/FrankNews/photos/a.116131900032611/248955756750224
by Paul Palango
https://www.frankmagazine.ca/.../save-the-kids-or-save...
(for subscribers only)
On that terrible night in Portapique, the RCMP faced what on the surface, at least, seemed like a no-brainer of a situation: rescue four children hiding in a basement after their parents had been murdered by Gabriel Wortman, or save a convicted drug trafficker with ties to a Mexican drug cartel and his parents. Save the kids or save the con. An easy choice, you’d think.
Yet, the RCMP chose to evacuate convicted drug trafficker Peter Griffon and his parents, Alan and Joanne Griffon, an hour or so before attending to the children. The cavalry showed up at the Griffon house at 4 Faris Lane sometime around midnight.
Meanwhile, since 10:01 p.m. on April 18, four terrified children, two aged 12 and two aged 10, had been on the line with a 911 operator for about two hours, hunkered in the basement of slain school-teacher Lisa McCully’s house at 135 Orchard Beach Drive. Some half a kilometre away from the Griffon residence, as the crow flies...
...Tammy Oliver-McCreadie, the sister of Jolene Oliver, recently was able to gain access to her brother-in-law Aaron Tuck’s cell phone. To her astonishment she found a text from RCMP Constable Wayne (Skipper) Bent to Aaron. It was sent at 1:15 p.m. that Sunday. The Oliver family had been frantically calling the RCMP throughout that day because they couldn’t reach their family members. The RCMP repeatedly told them they were checking. But they hadn’t been. Not in person, anyway.
The text to Aaron Tuck read: “This is Cst. Bent with the RCMP. Looking for Aaron Tuck to call me ASAP. Important. Thank you.”
The three Tucks couldn’t answer Skipper Bent’s text for obvious reasons.
Their bodies weren’t found until near 6 p.m. that Sunday, while the Olivers kept calling the RCMP and being stalled by Bent and the new officer in charge Corp. Gerard Rose-Berthiaume.
“I have really no idea why in the %#@& would they text and not walk down the road and check them,” Oliver-McCurdie wrote in a message to Frank.
“The phones were in the house. Aaron’s was plugged in charging.”
That Saturday night and well into the day on Sunday, the RCMP seemed obsessed with keeping regular members away from nine crime scenes on the lower half of Portapique Beach Road, even after the threat had been neutralized.
Nobody bothered to do a wellness check on the Tucks, for one small example, until seven hours after Gabriel Wortman’s rampage was finally brought to an end in Enfield..
https://www.facebook.com/FrankNews/photos/a.116131900032611/302030761442723
The first massacre took place on Saturday night April 18, and was contained in the community of Portapique Beach. It appears that no witness to any of the murders was left alive. Portapique resident Andrew MacDonald and his wife, Katie, were shot at by Wortman and escaped. MacDonald told the first arriving officer, Constable Stuart Beselt, that Wortman was dressed as a police officer and was driving a fully marked RCMP vehicle. It is understood that Beselt radioed that information to his base. The Mounties say they had five units in place by 10:35 p.m. or so, but they held their positions. Officers who wanted to go down the road were ordered not to by a corporal who threatened them with the loss of their jobs if they did not obey her. Thirteen people were killed that night: John Zahl and Joanne Thomas, Frank and Dawn Gulenchyn, Greg and Jamie Blair, Lisa McCully, Corrie Ellison, Aaron Tuck, Jolene Oliver, Emily Tuck and Peter and Joy Bond.
Could any of them been saved? Since the Columbine massacre in Colorado in 1999, police forces just about everywhere have recognized that the first officers on the scene of an active shooter must attack the shooter and not wait for specialized tactical officers to arrive on scene. The first responsibility of any law enforcement officer in a critical situation is preservation of life. Why did the RCMP not pursue Wortman when they were told where he was by MacDonald?
The second massacre occurred on the morning of April 19, and was spread out over a wide swath of Northern and Central Nova Scotia. A key thing to note is that the RCMP sent its officers home from Portapique around 6:30 a.m. after it was assumed that Wortman had committed suicide. Who made that assumption?
When daylight arrived, the bodies of Corrie Ellison and Lisa McCully were still lying by the road on Orchard Beach Drive. At least five bodies — the three Tucks and the two Bonds — wouldn’t be found until later that day. The police had no idea where Wortman was. Eventually, the police said that he likely spent the night behind a welding shop of Ventura Drive in Debert, but we still don’t really know that. It’s another assumption.
That morning, Wortman travelled 50 kilometres to Hunter Road in Wentworth, where he killed corrections officers Sean McLeod and Alanna Jenkins before setting their house on fire. He killed Good Samaritan neighbour, Tom Bagley, who came to check out what was going on. He then drove back toward Portapique and killed Lillian Hyslop on Highway 4. He eluded the RCMP near Glenholme, tried to gain entry into another residence, and then killed VON nurses Kristin Beaton and Heather O’Brien on Plains Road in Debert.
Wortman then headed south, where he shot and wounded Constable Chad Morrison and killed Constable Heidi Stevenson at Shubenacadie. At that scene he coldly executed Joey Webber, another Good Samaritan. He set his fake police car on fire with Webber in the back seat, and escaped in Webber’s Ford Escape. He stopped about a kilometre away at fellow denturist Gina Goulet’s house, killed her and stole her vehicle.
In all Wortman drove an estimated 200 kilometres. The RCMP did not set up a roadblock in front of him. Why?
One year after Portapique: On shifting timelines, evidence destruction, incompetence and unanswered questions, by Paul Palango
https://www.frankmagazine.ca/.../one-year-after-portapique
(for subscribers only)
https://www.facebook.com/FrankNews/photos/a.116131900032611/312155487096917
The Mounties hand out the awards every year in mid-April.
Fortuitous timing indeed for last year's winner, Glen Byrne!
https://www.facebook.com/FrankNews/photos/a.116131900032611/316306080015191
He is a former journalist who had spent almost 30 years working as a radio and television reporter in New Brunswick, the last 16 of them with the CTV network. In April 2005, Vass went to work for the Mounties in their strategic communications department. By 2020, he was a senior crisis and communications strategist in the force, “using traditional and social media to meet business goals or in other words using communications to solve and prevent crime,” as he so awkwardly states in his own LinkedIn profile.
Vass brought added value to the RCMP mainly because he had a pipeline back to his former comrades in the CTV newsroom, where he could deftly wield influence from behind the scenes and keep the CTV newsroom tame when it came to stories potentially harmful to the RCMP’s reputation.
There was another part of Vass’s back story that shed light on why the RCMP had put so much of its faith in Twitter and Facebook and why it continued to defend that mystifying decision. Leather memorably called the platform “a superior way to communicate this ongoing threat” and said he was “satisfied with the messaging.”
Vass was the key person inside the RCMP who was instrumental in convincing the force to use social media in a crisis and who was working behind the scenes to manage the force’s response to the growing criticism of the practise...
HOW THE MOUNTIES GOT ADDICTED TO TWITTER, by Paul Palango
https://www.frankmagazine.ca/.../how-the-mounties-got...
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https://www.facebook.com/FrankNews/photos/a.116131900032611/319290883050044
Sez host Jordan Bonaparte:
"I've gotta get me one of those. I'll go get my face punched in downtown with that hat on".
"I'd welcome it," declares the noted contrarian with an impish grin.
Palango's been a regular guest on Nighttime for months, where he talks at length about his ongoing investigation into last year's mass shootings.
He's back on the show tomorrow night, May 2, 10:15 N.S. time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VkD0oe-aEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngUK7665Fik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xojo_wUfW4o
MCC Day 48 – Lisa Banfield Speaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzms5ivv5DE
MCC- DAY 50 - LISA BANFIELD... AND HANDLERS
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Partner of N.S. mass shooter tells inquiry why she didn't report illegal guns
Lawyers of victims’ families concerned about lack of ability to ask questions
The partner of the gunman who killed 22 people in the Nova Scotia mass shooting says she knew he didn't have a gun licence, but was scared he would kill her if she ever reported him to police.
Lisa Banfield testified Friday before the Mass Casualty Commission leading a public inquiry into the rampage on April 18 and 19, 2020, when her common-law spouse, Gabriel Wortman, killed neighbours and strangers as he drove a mock RCMP cruiser.
Banfield, who was only questioned by commission counsel, was composed for the first few hours of the day as she testified with two of her sisters by her side.
She became emotional when talking about the various firearms the gunman owned. Banfield said she never considered reporting her common-law spouse to the police, even though she knew he didn't have a licence.
"If we had a fight, he put the gun to my head to scare me and said he could blow off my head," Banfield said through tears.
"So I was scared. I'm not going to say anything."
Banfield said she was aware other men also knew Wortman had these guns and were afraid to say anything, "so what am I gonna do?"
Wanted to protect police from gunman
She was also asked about what happened when two Halifax Regional Police officers arrived at the Dartmouth home she shared with the gunman in June 2010, investigating reports that he had threatened to kill his parents.
At the time, Banfield told officers there were no guns in the house. She testified Friday that wasn't true, but she said she lied to protect the officers.
"[Wortman] had the handgun by the nightstand and said if any police come, 'I'm shooting,'" Banfield said.
Soon after this, Banfield said RCMP Const. Greg Wiley came by the Portapique cottage to see whether Wortman had any firearms.
Wiley in house for 10 minutes: Banfield
The inquiry has heard that Wiley visited the gunman's cottage more than a dozen times in the years before the mass shooting, since the officer went to him for tips on local crime.
During that 2010 visit, Banfield said Wiley asked Wortman if he had any guns. The gunman showed the Mountie an old musket and one decorative gun above a fireplace that was filled with wax.
Wiley was only in the cottage for about 10 minutes and didn't seem to take an official statement from the gunman, nor did he search the home, said Banfield.
She couldn't remember if Wiley visited the gunman's warehouse or if it had been built by then.
The
Portapique, N.S. log cottage belonging to the Nova Scotia mass shooter.
The building, and nearby warehouse, were burned to the ground during
the April 2020 rampage. (Mass Casualty Commission)
The gunman began his rampage on April 18, 2020, after attacking Banfield during a celebration of their 19th anniversary. The gunman's long history of violence, emotional abuse and other controlling behaviour toward Banfield was outlined in a foundational document released earlier this week.
Although Banfield's lawyer James Lockyer said she was apprehensive about testifying, due to revisiting of the trauma from her past, she chose to give her evidence in person rather than via video.
"She's showing, you know, a lot of courage there in my view, and she's going to do her best," Lockyer said Thursday.
As of Friday, Banfield has completed four interviews with police since the massacre, a video walk-through of her experience on April 18 and 19 in Portapique, N.S., and five recent interviews with the commission itself.
Soon after the video walk-through in October 2020, the RCMP charged Banfield with supplying ammunition to the gunman and she stopped cooperating with police. Banfield also, under her lawyer's advice, initially refused to speak at the inquiry. That stance changed when her charge was referred to restorative justice in March.
According to a commission release, the decision to not allow questions from other participant lawyers is based on the volume of information Banfield has already provided, and her position as a "survivor of the perpetrator's violence."
Gillian Hnatiw, commission counsel, said earlier this week that while there may be "follow-up questions" put to Banfield on Friday about the shootings, their team will not be asking her to retell that story.
Michael Scott of Patterson Law, the firm representing the families of most victims, said they were "shocked" to hear that.
Scott said their clients already had significant concerns with the commission blocking direct cross-examination. He is not planning to submit any written questions for the commission to consider.
Scott said there is "absolutely no point" in having Banfield give sworn testimony in person under the conditions the commission has laid out.
Michael Scott is a lawyer with Patterson Law, whose firm represents more than a dozen families of Portapique victims. (CBC)
"We can be forgiven for concluding that Ms. Banfield has been called forward for no other reason than ... it can be said that she was called," Scott said Thursday.
He added that the commission's trauma-informed mandate would have been better served by having Banfield testify once in person, and not sit through multiple lengthy interviews behind closed doors.
If this process had been done the "proper way" and questions allowed from various lawyers, Scott said Banfield would have been allowed the opportunity to speak her piece. But as it stands, Scott said there will still be major questions around Banfield after she testifies Friday, and "speculation about what actually happened."
When asked what else the commission is hoping to learn from Banfield, one of their lawyers Emily Hill told reporters Thursday that there are multiple issues, including the history of the gunman's abuse in their relationship. Hill also said they do have questions for her as a witness to how the events of April 18 unfolded.
Banfield has told police how the gunman assaulted her before throwing her into the mock RCMP car in his Portapique garage. She said she escaped through an opening in the car's divider, and hid in the woods overnight.
Lockyer said he's glad that the commission will not allow questions from participant lawyers which may be driven by a "conspiracy theory" that Banfield actually didn't spend the night outside in the woods.
James
Lockyer is a lawyer for Lisa Banfield, the partner of the mass shooter
who killed 22 people in April 2020 across Nova Scotia. (CBC)
This type of question "takes us to south of the border," Lockyer said Thursday.
"You know, these shootings happen south of the border and the next thing we hear from the Alex Joneses of this world is that the shooting never actually happened, it's completely phony and was made up," Lockyer said.
"We don't need that kind of nonsense in Canada or in Nova Scotia."
Lockyer said Banfield is aware victims' families will be in the room Friday, and that's one of the reasons she wants to come in person. Banfield never knew the massacre was coming, Lockyer said, and every day thinks about what would have happened if she hadn't fled on April 18.
"She's going to think about that every day for the rest of her life. That's a difficult thing to carry, a very heavy burden to carry," Lockyer said.
"She just hopes that … she's going to be to tell them, as best she can, that she just wishes it never happened."
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
Although Patterson Law filed a motion asking for detailed reasons on the commission's approach, the commission released a decision dismissing this motion Thursday.
The commissioners said they have explained fully why Banfield is only being questioned by their own counsel, who are tasked to find answers in the public interest, and "not in the adversarial, trial-like model" on which the motion was based.
The commission also dismissed Patterson's request to give an oral submission about Banfield's testimony Friday.
This is not the first time the issue of lack of direct questioning has been raised by victims' families and their lawyers. In May, the commissioners decided that only their lawyers would question RCMP Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill and Sgt. Andy O'Brien in pre-taped interviews. Rehill was in charge of the police response during the first hours after 911 calls began to come in. O'Brien helped communicate with officers at the crime scene early in the crisis.
This drew a temporary boycott of the inquiry by many victims' families, who did not show up during the Mounties' testimonies and instructed their lawyers to do the same.
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Spouse of N.S. mass shooter shows how deadly rampage began in video re-enactment
Lisa Banfield told police what she could remember about Portapique events months later
Warning: This story contains details of violence and domestic abuse that are disturbing.
New videos show the long-time partner of the Nova Scotia mass shooter re-enacting what she saw and experienced the night the rampage began two years ago.
The Mass Casualty Commission released new documents and images Wednesday as part of its inquiry into what happened on April 18 and 19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people while driving a mock RCMP car.
Among these are video re-enactments from October 2020, when Lisa Banfield took an RCMP investigator through what she remembers happened in Portapique.
Banfield said the night began with the couple celebrating their 19th anniversary and having drinks at the gunman's large garage next to his cottage. They were video chatting with friends in the United States and talking about how they planned to hold a commitment ceremony the next year. That's when their friend Angel Patterson said, "Don't do it." That upset Banfield and she left the garage.
Halfway up the path to the cottage, Banfield said she decided to turn around and apologize to Wortman, but when she arrived he was already "irate." She told the commission she couldn't calm him down, and went back to the cottage and into bed.
What seemed like minutes later, Banfield said the gunman pulled the covers off the bed and assaulted her, kicking her into the bedpost. He then pulled her through the cottage which she noticed was already doused in gasoline, and set the building on fire once they got outside.
She then told police about the gunman leading her through the woods to the garage.
Once at the garage, the gunman started dousing the vehicles outside with gas. He dragged Banfield into the garage, and handcuffed her left hand.
But when he demanded her right hand, Banfield said she held it back.
When she was in the back seat of the mock RCMP cruiser behind the plexiglass partition, Banfield said the gunman loaded several firearms into the front of the vehicle.
He then went up to the loft apartment in the garage, and she tried to kick out the back seat windows with no success.
She managed to slip the handcuff off her left hand and was able to slide open a window in the divider and dive into the front seat. She ran from the garage, not taking any of the guns in the cruiser — something she told police she has replayed over in her head.
After running from the garage, Banfield tried to hide in one of his trucks but was worried he would set it on fire, and fled into the woods.
Banfield told police how she spent the next few hours alone, hearing gunshots and terrified the gunman would find her.
While Banfield was in hiding, the gunman killed 13 people within the small community.
She remained hidden inside a fallen tree overnight as temperatures dipped close to zero degrees, inquiry documents said.
Banfield said she thought if she could survive until dawn, she could then venture out for help.
After first light, she walked to a neighbour who called police just before 6:30 a.m. on April 19. Members of the RCMP's emergency response team picked her up in an armoured vehicle a few minutes later.
Medical records released through the inquiry show Banfield spent five nights in hospital after suffering a fractured rib and vertebrae, as well as extensive bruising and scrapes from the night of April 18.
Inquiry learns details of abuse, control suffered by spouse of N.S. mass shooter
Lisa Banfield says she was convinced the gunman would kill her family if she left him
Inquiry hears from spouse of N.S. mass shooter about years of abuse, control
Warning: details are disturbing.
The first time Lisa Banfield says she was physically abused by her partner was a terrifying assault where she ran into the woods in the early 2000s.
"He was running after me and I was screaming my head off, and then he caught me and then he … you know, I had blood all over me and he was dragging me back," Banfield recalled to police.
It's a scene she said played out again years later, the night her common-law spouse Gabriel Wortman began a shooting rampage in Portapique, N.S., that would leave 22 Nova Scotians dead.
The gunman's violence, emotional abuse and other controlling behaviour toward Banfield throughout their 19-year relationship are outlined in a new foundational document released Wednesday by the Mass Casualty Commission. The document is based on interviews with Banfield, her family and other witnesses.
The commission is leading the inquiry into the mass shootings on April 18 and 19, 2020, examining the tragedy and the factors that led up to it, including the violence in Wortman's family and his history of harassment and attacks on others.
Banfield, who is set to testify before the inquiry for the first time Friday, gave four police interviews following the massacre and five interviews with the commission itself in recent months.
Physical abuse began after party
The documents show that Banfield met Wortman in May 2001 at the now-defunct Halifax pub, the Thirsty Duck.
On their first date, he showed up with a dozen long-stemmed roses. Banfield felt that was "too showy," and said she wasn't impressed. But later in the evening, she was impressed by the gunman's calm demeanour when his car was rear-ended.
Things moved quickly after that. Three months later, Banfield had moved in with the gunman.
Initially, she described Wortman as "sweet and caring." That was before the first time she was physically abused, following a party at a cottage in Sutherland Lake, about a half-hour drive north of Portapique.
Although witnesses differed on when the incident happened — Banfield said it was in 2001, others suggested it was as late as 2007 — the commission said it was likely after October 2002 when the gunman bought his Portapique cottage.
The burned out remains of Gabriel Wortman's home on Portapique Beach Road, N.S., taken May 13, 2020. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
Banfield said Renée Karsten, a denturist who worked with Wortman at his Dartmouth clinic, invited the couple up for the night. But when Banfield wanted to leave and offered to take the gunman's Jeep home so he could stay, this "set him off."
As she left, the gunman jumped in the car and began hitting her in the head as she continued trying to drive. Banfield said she was crying so hard she couldn't see, so she stopped and fled into the woods.
The gunman soon caught Banfield and dragged her back to the car, but she ran away again when a group of people from the party arrived.
Karsten told police she saw Wortman dragging Banfield by the hair in the driveway, so she "lost it" and tried to intervene.
"His face and just the look in his eyes … it scared the hell out of me," Karsten told police.
Police involved, no charges laid
Karsten brought Banfield back to the cottage, and police came and drove the gunman back to his Portapique home. Banfield said that was the only time police were involved, and nothing came of the incident.
The commission said in the document it's unclear exactly why police were called and what they knew about the situation. While police records from this time "may have been purged" by now, the commission continues to investigate.
When Banfield eventually returned to the Portapique cottage that night, she saw the gunman pulling the tires off her car and throwing them over a bank. He told her to come inside, but she went to a neighbour's and waited for her niece to pick her up.
The niece, Stephanie Goulding, said Banfield was bloody and scraped up, with torn clothing. Goulding wanted to stop into the Truro police station to report the assault, but Banfield "begged" her not to, so instead a sister took photos of her injuries.
Banfield moved back into her sister Maureen Banfield's home after this, but Wortman soon began visiting and apologizing, saying he'd been drinking and he would never hurt her again — and they got back together.
This pattern would continue through the years, both Banfield and two of her sisters told police. The few times her family knew of the abuse and urged her to report it or leave the relationship, Banfield didn't want to take that step.
The gunman would often kick and punch the parts of her body that could be covered by clothing, Banfield said, like arms and legs. If he left marks on her neck while choking her, Banfield said she would use makeup to cover them.
On at least two occasions, Banfield said he put a gun to her head.
"He would say afterwards, 'If I didn't love you, I wouldn't do this because that's how much I care about you,'" she told the commission.
One sister, Janice Banfield, called the gunman a "sociopath" and said she thought "we're gonna have to bury our sister one day."
But Banfield said she felt she had nowhere to go, because the gunman frequently threatened to kill her or her family if she ever left him.
"He would be like, 'I know where your family lives,' and look at me a certain way," she said.
Violence more prevalent than first reported
While Banfield originally told RCMP officers there had been around 10 incidents of physical abuse over the years, she has since told the commission there were actually far more.
"I just don't trust very well, and I was scared to say anything," she told the commission this May.
She originally told police years would go by between attacks, and the last time had been three years before the mass shooting. Upon reflection, Banfield told the commission that was part of her coping mechanism.
Banfield would write a journal entry about an incident but never revisit it, so she believed an assault hadn't happened in years even though it was happening "all along."
"I would just have to block it out because … I needed to deal with whatever is going on in that moment, so I couldn't think about what's gone on," Banfield said.
Only one neighbour reported abuse
There were at least two instances of abuse witnessed by other people in Portapique.
One day, the gunman's uncle Glynn Wortman and another neighbour saw him choking Banfield on the front lawn of their cottage. The uncle yelled, "You're just like your father, get off of her," Banfield recalled.
Earlier this week, the inquiry heard accounts from several of the gunman's uncles describing incidents of his father, Paul Wortman, abusing his wife, Evelyn.
One Portapique neighbour, Brenda Forbes, heard about the incident Glynn Wortman saw and reported it to the RCMP in 2013. Nothing came of her complaint, and Forbes said no one else in the community believed her or wanted to get involved.
Banfield said she never told her family doctor about the abuse, and was careful to schedule visits only when she had no visible injuries.
Psychologist urged her to leave
But at one point, Banfield said things were "so bad" she saw a psychologist in Bedford who told her she was in an abusive relationship. This professional provided support and encouraged her to leave, but the gunman found out about it and made her stop.
The gunman also threatened to confront the doctor, Banfield said, and she felt "trapped."
Although Banfield said she was always "on eggshells" around the gunman, never knowing what would set him off, she consistently forgave his behaviour and tried to show him he was loved because "everybody always left him."
In a statement to the commission, Banfield wrote she felt bad for the gunman when he told her about how his father abused him as a child, especially because she had such a large and loving family.
"I thought I could help him if I just loved him unconditionally," Banfield said.
Controlling, isolating behaviour
The range of abuse the gunman inflicted on Banfield fits into the definitions of intimate-partner violence and coercive control, which are laid out in an inquiry report from Dr. Katreena Scott on interventions to address abuse.
Scott writes that intimate-partner violence includes a range of behaviours besides physical violence, like unwanted sexual activity, threats, humiliation, and economic abuse which deprives a victim of the ability to provide for their own needs.
Coercive control is a set of behaviours that disempower someone in a relationship, Scott said, like removing their liberties, threats to their family, and limiting access to loved ones or transportation.
"Very early on there were so many signs of his controlling or bullying behaviour, but somehow, I was able to block it out and justify to myself how badly he treated me," Banfield wrote in a statement to the commission.
"Gabriel was jealous, controlling, possessive, extremely degrading, and piggish; it was 'his way or the highway.'"
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
Banfield said within the first couple of years, the gunman was able to convince her to quit her bank job at RBC so she could come work for his denturist business, which would make it easier for them to take time off and travel together.
"I realize now that he just wanted to control my entire life," Banfield wrote to the commission.
He urged her to sell the car she'd had throughout her previous marriage, and he eventually bought her a Mercedes under his name.
Banfield was in the gunman's will by 2011, but her sister Maureen Banfield was worried she'd be left with nothing if they broke up because she had no other income or investments of her own.
By 2020, Banfield said she believed she was making around $25 an hour, but the clinic didn't have a regular payroll system. Instead, the gunman would write her cheques from a business account or give her cash, sometimes deducting a percentage from her cheques "for retirement," she said.
"He dealt with all the money things, so I trusted whatever," Banfield told the commission.
'He wanted me to know that without him, I had nothing'
Besides her work at his clinics, Banfield said she would wait on the gunman "hand and foot" by making all the meals and handling the cleaning and organizing of the household. She told one of her sisters it was the way she was raised and she wanted to take on these tasks.
Banfield said in her written statement the gunman controlled everything in her life, so when she didn't obey, he could take things away to "punish her," including her car keys, phone and salary.
"He wanted me to know that without him, I had nothing. I believed that," she wrote. "Made me feel so stupid and incapable of doing things on my own even though I did everything for him."
The gunman also often groped Banfield in front of her family because he thought "it was funny," she said, and their sexual relationship was always defined by his wants and needs, not hers.
Sex between them did not involve intimacy or tenderness, Banfield wrote to the commission, and said the gunman was "addicted to pornography."
Despite his many affairs, including with Portapique neighbours or his own patients, Banfield said she forgave him every time — and "I am so ashamed of that."
Unhappy with Banfield socializing
While Banfield said the gunman would often become mad at her for wanting to see her siblings or other family, Banfield said he also didn't like her becoming too friendly with people in Portapique.
If he saw her having fun at neighbourhood parties, Banfield said the gunman would put her down in front of others for "acting like an idiot" and drag her away by the arm. If she refused, he would become violent and slap her or pull her hair.
At work, Banfield said he also belittled her and screamed at her in front of patients. When out for dinner one night, the gunman threw a glass of water in her face and left her alone in the restaurant.
The gunman's controlling behaviour and jealousy appeared to weigh on Banfield's mind. One time, Banfield saw another denturist while out drinking with her sister, and was terrified they might tell the gunman because she wasn't supposed to be out.
When her mother died, her high school boyfriend attended the funeral, but Banfield ushered him out, saying the gunman disliked him and would be upset he was there.
The violence and control from the gunman lasted until April 18, 2020, when he attacked Banfield on the night of their 19th anniversary. He threw her in his mock RCMP cruiser, but she said she escaped through an opening in the car's partition and hid in the woods overnight.
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Lisa Banfield re-enactment videos raise questions about why she was charged
Women’s Shelters Canada worries Banfield's experience with police will deter other women from reporting abuse
The release of new videos showing the longtime partner of the Nova Scotia mass shooter re-enacting what she saw and experienced the night of the rampage is raising questions about why police charged her in the weeks following the shootings.
The Mass Casualty Commission released footage Wednesday of Lisa Banfield walking an RCMP investigator through what she remembered happening in Portapique, N.S., on April 18 and 19, 2020, including how her partner beat her and tried to handcuff her.
The re-enactment was filmed in late October 2020, six months after Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people while driving a mock RCMP car.
A few weeks after filming the re-enactment, Banfield was charged with supplying ammunition to the gunman.
The Crown eventually determined there was no public interest in sending the case to trial and instead referred the matter to restorative justice. Upon completion, the criminal charge will be dropped.
"I have concerns about the timeline and concerns about the fact she was charged in the first place," Banfield's defence lawyer, James Lockyer, said Thursday.
Erin Breen, a lawyer representing three sexual assault and justice groups — Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, Wellness Within, and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund — said she has concerns with the sequence of events.
"It's always been a very troubling issue from our perspective. My clients were quite outraged when they learned that Ms. Banfield was being charged," she said.
"Systemically it's a problem when a survivor comes forward and shares information about their survival behaviour and ends up getting charged in a criminal investigation."
Banfield said she pleaded with gunman
In the videos released Wednesday, Banfield explains how the couple had been marking their 19th anniversary when they began fighting.
After she turned in for the night, Banfield said the gunman pulled the covers off the bed and assaulted her, kicking her into the bedpost. He then pulled her through the cottage, which she noticed was already doused in gasoline, and set the building on fire once they got outside, she told the investigator.
Banfield said the gunman dragged her into the garage and tried to put her in handcuffs.
"Looking at his eyes, there was nothing there," she said. "It was just so cold."
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
Banfield was able to escape — shoeless — and hide for the next few hours, terrified he would find her as she heard gunshots.
Medical records released through the inquiry show Banfield spent five nights in hospital after suffering a fractured rib and vertebrae, as well as extensive bruising and scrapes from the night of April 18.
Other documents made public Thursday as part of the commission covered how the gunman used violence, emotional abuse and other controlling behaviour toward Banfield for nearly two decades.
Push for more police training
Megan Stephens, lawyer for Women's Shelters Canada, said she worries Banfield's experience will discourage other women from going to police.
"I'm concerned about the message that people get because sometimes violence is such that people do need to call the police; there is no one else who could step in to protect them," she said.
"But in this case, it feels like there were multiple failures of that, and the message that I think unfortunately women will get if they connect these dots, if they themselves are living in abusive relationships, is I don't know if that's the right option for me."
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Breen said she hopes the commission's work will at least spark a conversation about how police and the justice system should approach intimate partner abuse.
"You see it quite commonly in situations where women are defending themselves in a violent conformation, end up getting charged with assault themselves," she said.
"The current policy of a pro-arrest, pro-charge, pro-prosecution removes any choice or power from the person who has survived the violence."
Stephens said she also hopes police get more training about how to recognize and better respond to abuse, including controlling behaviour.
Lisa
Banfield's running shoes, lost while fleeing Gabriel Wortman, are shown
as commission counsel Gillian Hnatiw presents a foundational document
about the violent behaviour that Wortman directed toward Banfield, his
common-law spouse, at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass
murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, 2020, in Halifax on
Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and
driving a replica police cruiser, murdered 22 people. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
"Intimate partner violence doesn't just involve discrete acts of physical violence, there are other ways in which controlling, coercive behaviour can really lead people to basically be stuck in situations and to have no control," she said.
"Unfortunately, there is not enough training that goes into preparing officers who are on the front line. All the more so in some of these rural communities where you don't have specialists, you have generalists."
Banfield felt 'betrayed' by re-enactment filming
In an interview Banfield gave to a commission lawyer in April of this year, she said she felt ambushed by the re-enactment filming.
She said she wanted to meet RCMP Sgt. Greg Vardy at the cottage in Portapique so he could see where her sneakers had been left and where she had hid overnight. It was the first time she had returned to the cottage since the night of the rampage.
"I heard that people were thinking I'm lying about what happened, it's like, I thought if I go up there for the first time, I want somebody to see that, you know, to find my shoes, to find this tree, to find the things that I'm telling you that happened," she said.
But Banfield said when she went to meet the Mountie, he had brought along a small audio and video crew.
"It was just feeling like I was betrayed," she said.
Her sister, Maureen, later jumps in on the interview. She said Banfield wasn't in the right mental shape to do the re-enactment.
"Here's the thing that I feel is probably the deepest betrayal in terms of the manipulation of her actually being investigated without our knowledge," Maureen Banfield said.
"It was horrific and I think it was very damning to her mentally, and that's for me, I think, the most egregious thing that took place in terms of her well-being and putting her first."
Banfield not under investigation during filming
A spokesperson for the RCMP said Banfield was not under investigation at the time of the re-enactment filming.
"The victim/witness video re-enactment was related to a period of time where Ms. Banfield was a victim of multiple crimes. Given that she was not under investigation, it would not have been appropriate to provide her with rights that are given to a person who is being investigated for an offence or who is under arrest," said Cpl. Chris Marshall.
"Lisa Banfield was provided her reason for arrest, rights to counsel and police warning, as required by the law, during the investigation in which she is charged with ammunition-related offences."
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3 accused of giving N.S. gunman ammunition named in lawsuit filed by families
Lisa Banfield, James Banfield, Brian Brewster listed as defendants alongside shooter's estate
Three people accused of giving ammunition to the man responsible for killing 22 people in Nova Scotia have now been added as defendants to the proposed class-action lawsuit launched by families of the victims.
On April 18 and 19, denturist Gabriel Wortman killed neighbours, acquaintances and strangers, and burned several homes, including his cottage, before being shot and killed by police in Enfield, N.S. During most of the attacks, he was driving a decommissioned cruiser that he'd adapted to look like a real RCMP vehicle.
The gunman's common-law spouse, Lisa Banfield, 52, her brother James Blair Banfield, 54, of Beaver Bank, N.S., and her brother-in-law Brian Brewster, 60, of Lucasville, N.S., have been charged with unlawfully providing the shooter with .223-calibre Remington cartridges and .40-calibre Smith & Wesson cartridges in the month leading up to the massacre, which began in Portapique, N.S.
Lisa Banfield is facing two counts and her relatives are each facing one count. They're all expected to enter pleas at their next court date in Dartmouth provincial court on March 9.
Now, in addition to the criminal charges, the three are named in the lawsuit that argues they and the gunman's estate —which has been valued at $2.1 million — are liable to the families of the people who lost their lives, the estates and people who suffered damage to property and people who were injured due to Wortman's actions.
There is a separate lawsuit families have filed against the RCMP and the province.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn
Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins.
Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson,
Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton,
Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair.
Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
The statement of claim filed against the estate alleges that in addition to killing 22 people, Wortman injured six people, killed five pets and burned or damaged three vehicles and four homes.
Lisa Banfield, James Banfield and Brian Brewster's names were added to the lawsuit on Feb. 5. The other defendants include the public trustee, which is representing Wortman's estate, and three companies Wortman owned and controlled: Berkshire Broman Corp., Atlantic Denture Clinic Inc., and Northumberland Investments Inc.
"Ultimately, our job is to protect the interests of the families of those lost in the April tragedies and of course the victims, the survivors of that tragedy as well," said lawyer Sandra McCulloch, who represents the plaintiffs. "That requires us pursuing this avenue of potential recourse and accountability and answers for our families."
In order to proceed as a class action, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court must certify the lawsuit. That has not yet happened. None of the named defendants have filed statements in response to the allegations made by the plaintiffs.
The
burned remains of Gabriel Wortman’s cottage in Portapique, N.S. Wortman
disguised himself as a Mountie and over the course of 13 hours the
night of April 18, 2020, and the following morning travelled nearly 200
kilometres in and around Portapique, killing 22 people. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
When the RCMP announced the criminal charges in December, the force said the trio were not aware of Wortman's plans.
The criminal case "coupled with the other information and evidence that we've been gathering on our end adds up to there being support for some degree of culpability on the part of each of those individuals," said McCulloch.
Lawsuit alleges spouse acquired gasoline
The updated statement of claim alleges that Lisa Banfield "was aware of and facilitated Wortman's preparations, including but not limited to, his accumulation of firearms, ammunition, other weapons, gasoline, police paraphernalia, and the outfitting of a replica RCMP vehicle."
It alleges Banfield "directly acquired some of the accelerants and ammunition used by Wortman in the crime spree" and that James Banfield and Brian Brewster also "directly acquired" ammunition.
The proposed lawsuit claims all three were "negligent in [the] acquisition of these items" and that they "knew or ought to have known that Wortman had tortious intentions."
McCulloch declined to elaborate on the exact nature of the additional evidence gathered to support the allegations.
The investigative firm Martin and Associates has been working with Patterson Law since the law firm was retained by the families. Last fall it set up a website to collect tips and information related to the mass shootings.
Though police have said Lisa Banfield was the first victim of violence in Portapique on April 18, she was always excluded as a plaintiff from the families' lawsuit.
"From our perspective, there has always been a possibility of a conflict of interest between [Banfield's] interest and those of our clients. And you're seeing that now manifest itself in our amendments," said McCulloch.
Spouse suing estate separately
In a separate civil case, however, Banfield is also suing her former partner's estate, which includes six properties, three corporations and $705,000 in cash seized from the wreckage of the couple's cottage in Portapique.
In her statement of claim, which was filed with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court last summer, Banfield said she was the victim of assault and battery, and suffered physical, emotional and psychological injuries and trauma.
Search warrant documents show several people told investigators Banfield, who lived with Wortman above the denture clinic in Dartmouth where they both worked, was abused during their 19-year relationship.
Lawyers representing Banfield are also opposing the application by CBC and other media organizations to lift some redactions in the search warrants related to the mass shooting investigation.
Banfield opposed to lifting redactions
In documents filed with the court on Feb. 5, James Lockyer and Jessica Zita, the Toronto lawyers who are representing Banfield, argue that 13 redacted paragraphs should remain blacked out because they explain the Crown's case against their client and "invades Lisa solicitor-client privilege."
One paragraph is a summary of a statement Banfield's friend and lawyer Kevin van Bargen gave to police.
"His information deals with business and financial affairs, unrelated and peripheral to the events. This invasion of Lisa's solicitor-client privilege is unwarranted, would not be permitted at her trial, and should not be provided to the media," the lawyers stated in the filings.
Their filings said Lisa Banfield gave four statements to police, on April 19, April 20, April 28 and July 28. They said the other sections that should remain redacted pertain to her statements and those made by her co-accused and other family members who spoke to police between April and July.
Meanwhile, work on a public inquiry into the mass killings is underway. Last month the commission announced the staff who will lead the teams involved in the joint federal-provincial inquiry.
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Cross-examination of N.S. killer's spouse could promote conspiracy theories: lawyer
There are good reasons why the spouse of the man responsible for the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history should not face cross-examination when she testifies Friday before a public inquiry, her lawyer says.
James Lockyer said Thursday his client, Lisa Banfield, should not be retraumatized by lawyers who seem determined to explore conspiracy theories about what happened April 18-19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people during a 13-hour rampage across Nova Scotia.
The Toronto lawyer said some lawyers who represent victims' families appear keen to ask Banfield how she managed to escape from her deranged partner and survive a bitterly cold night in the woods around Portapique, N.S., on the first night of the rampage.
"Some of the lawyers, one or two of them, have been pretty hyperbolic in their statements," Lockyer said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"They talk of wanting to cross-examine her about certain aspects of her trauma that night without ever explaining their goals. And their goals, when you think about it, can only be conspiracy-theorist goals."
Lockyer said the purpose of raising questions about Banfield's whereabouts would be to challenge her credibility and suggest that she may have spent the night elsewhere, which he says is absurd.
"These mass casualty events, particularly (those) we've seen south of the border, do give rise to conspiracy theorists," Lockyer said. "We don't need that in Canada. We don't need that in Nova Scotia. I think the commission is to be congratulated that they're not willing to entertain it."
Lawyer Michael Scott, whose firm represents 14 of the victims' families, challenged Lockyer's conspiracy comments, arguing that the inquiry's decision to limit questioning will leave lingering doubts about Banfield's testimony.
"There are very good questions to be asked about how she survived overnight," Scott said Thursday. "And by arranging a process where nobody is allowed to ask reasonable questions, then this promotes conspiracy theories."
The three commissioners overseeing the federal-provincial inquiry recently decided Banfield will not face cross-examination from lawyers who represent relatives of the victims, mainly because she could be traumatized by having to relive the violence she endured.
The inquiry has heard evidence that Banfield, whose relationship with Wortman spanned 19 years, was the victim of a controlling, abusive man who repeatedly beat her. Banfield has also told the RCMP and the commission that she was beaten and threatened immediately before her husband started killing people in Portapique.
On Thursday, the commission issued written reasons for its decision to limit questioning of Banfield, arguing that the role of a public inquiry is not the same as a trial.
"We have been clear from the beginning that this is not an adversarial, trial-like proceeding," the ruling says. The decision says the commission's approach "represents the most effective way to gather Ms. Banfield's best evidence."
Sandra McCulloch, a lawyer who works at the same firm as Scott, said inquiries and trials should share a commitment to finding facts.
"As much as we're in a different kind of legal proceeding, we're still in a proceeding where we have to have reliable evidence, and part of having reliable evidence is allowing it to be tested," McCulloch said. "That's largely not going to happen."
McCulloch is concerned that Banfield will not be asked about her partner's violent behaviour while they were together on that deadly weekend in April 2020.
In an earlier statement, the commission said Banfield may be accompanied by two support people and will "address remaining questions relevant to the commission's mandate."
Earlier this week, the commission released a 100-page document based on evidence provided by Banfield during four interviews with the RCMP and five interviews with the inquiry. That document provided extensive details about the killer's long history of gender-based violence.
As well, the inquiry on Wednesday was shown a video recording of a 90-minute RCMP interview, which featured Banfield providing a detailed description of what happened to her on the night of April 18, 2020.
The commission has confirmed participating lawyers have been invited to submit questions in advance of Banfield's testimony, and they can bring forward further questions on Friday.
Scott has said his clients have instructed him not to submit written questions for Banfield because doing so would lend legitimacy to a flawed process.
Lawyers for some families boycotted proceedings in May after the inquiry prevented cross-examination of two RCMP staff sergeants who oversaw the early response to the mass shooting.
Lockyer said his client was feeling apprehensive about appearing before the inquiry, which will be the first time she has spoken in public about the tragedy.
"I know ... she says to herself, `If I hadn't run and got away, would I have saved 22 lives?' And of course she says that to herself and always will. The probable answer is that it would have been 23 lives and not 22, but she's never going to believe that."
It's important to remember that Banfield was the first victim of the "mass casualty" event, he said.
"I don't think Lisa sees herself as a victim. She's too conscious of the people who were killed and their families. It's going to be a difficult day for her."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 14, 2022.
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the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - July 10 - 11, 2022 - Weekly updates
and revelations (with Paul Palango)
In this double episode I share my two recent conversations with Paul
Palango. The first, recorded on July 10th, is our discussion
surrounding the interview with Rob the carpenter. The second, recorded
the next day, is an emergency update in which Paul and I discuss the
bizarre lie the that Rob the Carpenter told… and what that means to
the broader story.
Episode Links:
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting Series:
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Dear Frank:
I’m not a fan of your magazine; however, recently you have stepped out
of the fray and produced some very good journalism. Your interview
with Gabriel Wortman’s father being the most noteworthy. Some of your
Portapique coverage is noteworthy. Frank has a place in society.
However, your recent inclusion of Paul Palango is pointing you and our
neighbours in a very dark place as a society. I can’t reveal my real
identity due to my employment as I would be shunned by my colleagues
in media. I am aware, based on verifiable information that the
Canadian mainstream media has turned its back on Paul Palango, who was
a onetime trusted news source and held respect.
The tide began to shift several years ago when some of his views were
not based on credible information, but conjecture and speculation or
as the mainstream media believes, he is falling into some mental
health crisis.
Maclean’s leaned into Paul because he seemed to have information
nobody else had, and produced sources within the Mounties. It’s just
they were not credible, and had an axe to grind. Maclean’s verified
this fact and they cut Paul loose after that infamous story from last
June.
And they told other media sources that he is treacherous.
A colleague is working on a story about Lisa Banfield that has her and
her lawyer working on a libel suit against Frank and Paul. My sources
tell me the Mounties have nothing to suggest she is misaligned and
very much is a victim. After the inquiry and the evidence comes out
they will be positioned to be successful in showing Palango was
libellous.
I support what you do, I don’t agree with the style, but we are a free
society. My only reason for stepping in is that you are printing what
will be shown to be his false narrative based on untrustworthy sources
and possibly mental illness.
Ivana Smear,
Via email
Dear Ms. Smear:
This may come as a surprise to you, but I’ve heard this all before.
My position is very clear.
Since the first reports of gunshots at Portapique Beach on April 18,
2020, the response by the RCMP has been stranger than strange.
The Mounties arrived on scene in time to potentially trap the killer
in the community and perhaps prevent at least the last five murders.
Instead, Wortman got past them, had a rest in Debert, and then was
allowed to roam around Nova Scotia, killing nine more people.
Lisa Banfield says she hid in the woods for about eight hours on a
blistering cold night. She went to Leon Joudrey’s house at 6:34 a.m.
He has told many reporters and the police that he did not believe her
story.
The earliest reports claimed Banfield suffered severe injuries from a
beating administered by Gabriel Wortman.
Actually, the RCMP and the Crown blacked out the first description of
those injuries. The word they blacked out was “minor,” which was
consistent with what Joudrey said.
You suggest that I am treacherous and not trusted by the mainstream
media because of a story you highlighted in Maclean’s magazine from
last June.
For that story we obtained a copy of the RCMP’s undercover manual.
Among other things described in that document are the procedures the
force should use in a blown undercover operation.
The actions of the RCMP before, during and after the weekend of April
18-19 largely conform to the procedures described. I’ve spent the past
eight months trying to disprove that there was an undercover operation
in Portapique — to no avail.
The more I investigate the more it appears that someone in Wortman’s
circle appeared to have a special relationship with the authorities —
be they the RCMP, Halifax Police or even CSIS. Nothing is conclusive,
but that doesn’t mean you just give up because it’s too difficult.
That isn’t in my DNA.
My role as a journalist is to act as a disinterested investigator
whose duty it is to uncover the truth and show no fear or favouritism
to anyone. Like a pathologist, I am a friend of the dead. As Joseph
Pulitizer once put it: “Newspapers should have no friends.”
I am not here to be liked. I am not in it for the money, although some
uninformed critics have wrongly accused me of being so. I am here to
be the agent of the story and to do what it dictates that I must do.
As for Ms. Banfield, I believe it is in the public interest that her
story be fully examined because she was apparently the last person to
see Wortman before he went on his rampage.
You say Maclean’s dropped me because I was unreliable.
I can assure you that is not what happened.
I withdrew my story and chose to run it in Frank, as written.
That same story generated a number of leads which lead to the
discovery of the Pictou County analog recordings from the weekend in
question.
Stories about what was on those tapes brought even more stories and leads.
That’s what good journalists do.
As for my mental health, some people think I’m crazy for doing what
I’m doing. I have a nice, comfortable life. I took this on to help
other journalists, but when I found their work wanting, I got more and
more involved. That being the case, maybe I do have a mental health
issue. I admit that I can be a pain in the ass, but I always strive to
do the right thing.
The funny thing about my mental health is that the one agency slyly
pushing that narrative has been the RCMP.
“Look at the source,” referring to me, when another reporter tried
following up one of my stories.
“Another fairy tale,” Supt. Darren Campbell put it to the CBC’s
Elizabeth McMillan when commenting on another story. I stand by my
work in the past and now. Don’t you find it disturbing that the RCMP
is willing to invest in character assassination rather than address
the very real issues raised about his dysfunctional organization?
That’s not a good thing in a supposed democracy.
If you still insist on pushing the mental health angle, perhaps we can
both submit to a Rorschach test to determine who sees the crazier
stuff in the inkblots.
You also state that Banfield and her lawyer, James Lockyer, are
planning to sue me sometime down the road.
I know Mr. Lockyer from my days in Toronto. He lived on the next block
when he was defending Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, who strolled by my
house on his regular walks. Lockyer is a good lawyer and always has
been. He’s got to do what he thinks is best for his client.
If Banfield is truly planning to head down that road, I would give her
and Lockyer the following advice.
This is not my first rodeo. As a corporate journalist and as an
individual over the course of my career, I’ve been involved in about
18 major lawsuits (mostly on behalf of reporters who worked for me)
and occasionally as a plaintiff. I’m 16 and 0 with a couple of draws.
My last case should be seen as instructive.
In the mid-1990s, a group of individuals hiding behind a $3-billion
corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange sued me for
$11-million to stop me from asking questions about them. It didn’t
stop me. They went up to $20 million. It still didn’t stop me. They
tried to hire hit man Ken Murdock to kill me. Murdock turned down the
job because he didn’t think it was right to kill a civilian.
How do I know? I met him. I spent four days in the maximum-security
Kingston Penitentiary interviewing him.
I didn’t counter-sue the company. Instead, I launched an entirely
different suit against it, its executives and lawyers. I called their
lawsuit “public relations.” It ended up being an almost 10-year fight.
The company went bankrupt, but the individuals didn’t. I ended up
getting a nice house of it.
The bottom line is this. I am prepared to take the slings and many
arrows that are fired back at me as a result of what I write.
But attacking the messenger is what the desperate and corrupt have
always done. It’s as old as the Old Testament. Look up Malachi.
The Greek philosopher Sophocles put it this way: “No one loves the
messenger who brings bad news.”
And here’s my take on it all: If you don’t like what I’m reporting and
writing, get off your butt, suck up some courage, do some of your own
investigating and either confirm what I’m reporting or prove me wrong.
You’d be doing everyone a favour — including yourself.
Paul Palango,
Chester
Attacking the messenger...
https://www.frankmagazine.ca/
Comments
Nicholas Langille
Give it to em Paul.
If the rcmp had answers that could be strung together coherently maybe
I could trust what they say. But that hasn't happened .… See more
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Jim Barkhouse
Thank you Paul for your in depth coverage of this tragedy, your
pursuit of the truth will set the facts straight and will be
appreciated by all.
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Donna Marie Jessome
Wtg Mr. Palango, Keep doing You!
You and LGC are basically all we really have in this Massacre ,who are
trying your darntest to bring the truth forward and for that I Thank
You.
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Kelly Smales
This is awesome Paul. We need more courageous journalists like you!
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Christine Elliott
Excellent response Paul. as is your work. You’ve been tireless with
the Portipique story and your past work about the RCMP is so valuable.
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Paula Jarrett
Excellent work - keep going. People impacted by this horror deserve
nothing less. We all deserve nothing less.
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> Thursday, 30 June 2022
> How the N.S. mass shooter controlled, exploited women around him
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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> the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - July 10, 2022 - with Paul Palango
> 296 watching now
> Started streaming 28 minutes ago
> Nighttime Podcast
> 7.45K subscribers
> Paul Palango and I will discuss the unfolding public inquiry into the
> Nova Scotia Mass Shootings. Advance questions and comments can be
> submitted by voice memo at nighttimepodcast.com/contact
>
> https://nationalpost.com/news/
>
>
> Mass shootings caused by 'masculinity,' says report commissioned by
> Nova Scotia inquiry
>
> The paper makes few mentions of the April 2020 massacre in which a
> 51-year-old man driving a replica police car murdered 22 people
> Author of the article:
> Tristin Hopper
> Publishing date:
> May 03, 2022
>
> RCMP officers prepare to take mass shooter Gabriel Wortman into
> custody at a gas station in Enfield, N.S. on Sunday April 19,
> 2020.RCMP officers prepare to take mass shooter Gabriel Wortman into
> custody at a gas station in Enfield, N.S. on Sunday April 19, 2020.
> Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tim Krochak
>
> Amid criticisms that Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission has been
> far too reticent to criticize police actions amidst Canada’s deadliest
> mass shooting, this week the inquiry took a different focus: the role
> of “masculinity.”
>
> “Our research suggests that mass shootings are a gendered issue: they
> fundamentally have to do with the relationship between men,
> masculinity, and guns,” read the report tabled this week by the
> inquiry.
>
> Mass Shootings and Masculinity, drafted by two University of
> California sociologists, told the commissioners that mass shootings
> are inherently “enactments of masculinity,” and that in addition to
> curbing gun ownership, governments must pursue “cultural change.”
>
> The Mass Casualty Commission is convening hearings this week into the
> April 2020 active shooter incident in which a 51-year-old man driving
> a replica police car murdered 22 people at locations across rural Nova
> Scotia.
>
> In addition to probing the details of the massacre and the police
> response, the commission has also been mandated to examine
> “gender-based and intimate partner violence.”
>
> Notably, the massacre’s perpetrator had a lengthy history of violence
> against his common-law partner, Lisa Banfield. His April 2020 killing
> spree began after an argument in which he shot at Banfield and
> attempted to lock her in one of his replica police cars (she escaped,
> and ultimately survived the massacre).
>
>
> Commission counsel Amanda Byrd presents information at the Mass
> Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia
> on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax.
> Nova Scotia mass shooting gunman drew police attention 10 years
> before killings
> A roadside memorial to victims of the Nova Scotia mass killing, in
> Portapique, N.S. on April 22, 2020.
> Questioning his decisions, RCMP supervisor during N.S. mass
> shooting took 16-month leave afterward
>
> Another expert report received by the commission looked at the
> statistical link between gender-based violence and mass casualty
> attacks. “There is emerging evidence of a very real public risk of
> ‘private’ violence,” reads the report, which was commissioned for the
> inquiry from researchers out of Australia’s Monash University.
>
> But the University of California report does not examine any of the
> specifics of the Nova Scotia shootings, and only briefly touches on
> Canadian mass shootings generally. Rather, it focuses almost entirely
> on mass shootings in the United States, where the phenomenon is known
> to occur with far greater frequency as compared to the rest of the
> world.
>
> The 44-page report writes that U.S. mass shootings do not always
> correlate to state-level rates of gun ownership (Alaska, one of the
> most armed states, also has one of its lowest levels of mass
> shootings). So, researchers also cite a raft of sociological papers
> linking gun violence with race, right-wing politics and even
> “masculine overcompensation.”
>
> “Gun ownership, gun-related fatalities, and gun violence more
> generally are all gendered phenomena,” it reads.
>
> Researchers note at several points throughout the paper that their
> theories may have little bearing on Canada. While attributing American
> mass shootings to a protection-centric U.S. gun culture, the paper
> also says that Canada seems to have a “pre-1970 U.S. gun culture”
> which primarily treats firearms as hunting implements. Not mentioned
> is that in Canada, unlike the United States, it is technically
> forbidden to own firearms for the purposes of personal protection.
>
> In one of the report’s few direct mentions of the Nova Scotia
> massacre, the authors write only that it “resists easy
> classification.”
>
> Mass Casualty Commission hearings first began in February, and have
> faced heavy criticism from the families of massacre victims for its
> apparent reticence to question police actions during the 13 hours of
> the massacre.
>
> Perhaps most notably, the inquiry decided not to include evidence from
> a victim’s FitBit showing that she had a pulse for more than eight
> hours after RCMP members declared her dead.
>
> Hundreds of documents related to the inquiry have also been
> mysteriously removed from the Mass Casualty Commission’s website,
> including testimony from RCMP members criticizing the understaffing at
> select detachments and even internal accusations that one member
> allowed the shooter to “get away.”
>
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - Lisa Banfield Re-enactment watch along / discussion
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Nothing happened at Brink's, and why that's Important
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MCC Day 46 – Presentation of Lisa Banfield’s Interviews and Re-enactments
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MCC - DAY 48 - LISA BANFIELD VIDEOS AND LEAF AUSTRALIA
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June 4 2020 Louise Renault interview with Leon Joudrey
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Leon Joudrey: in his own words
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. We can't believe everything that we see...
But I am not as handsome lol
30:30 ..no NDA? Tho I totally get that he doesn't want to put families under duress... From personal experience closure doesn't come without full disclosure regardless of how harsh or disturbing those details may be.. imso 
Guys got the cop haircut and build.. but I'm sure all your average neighbours do too lol..I dunno. But it's a running pattern in this storyline where the only alleged witnesses are folks who've already moved away from the area or are military/cop connected.. plus Leon gets pretty political at the end here..for a non political guy.. and seems to be somewhat hostile toward police.. I mean cops asked him what's in his garage..gunman's on the loose but he doesn't ask them to search his property to make sure the gunman's not lurking around..after all his gf is in this guy's house right? Maybe I'm alone in thinking that Leon's own depiction of himself and what went down actually fit the rcmp profile for the shooter better than Gabe wortman does
Just ain't adding up. Something's off
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Relatives of N.S. mass shooting victims say their lawyers should be allowed to question gunman's spouse
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:11:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Hey Palango Methinks Madame Hupman asked
some clever questions today N'esy Pas?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ri5-fMbzE&ab_channel=LittleGreyCells
MCC - DAY 47 - BRENDA "BOE" FORBES
MCC - DAY 47 - BRENDA "BOE" FORBES
7) Je Ne Comprends Pas (Les Conflits d'Intérêts)
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MCC- DAY 50 - LISA BANFIELD... AND HANDLERS
MCC- DAY 50 - LISA BANFIELD... AND HANDLERS
Global National: July 15, 2022 | Wife of Nova Scotia mass shooter confesses to hiding information
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“was reluctant to engage with Crown Prince MBS” 18:07
Remember when Joe called him and he wouldn’t take his call? Who’s reluctant against whom? FYI, neither the King or Crown Prince received Joe at the airport whereas they were both there to welcome Trump
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