The Nova Scotia authorities is dealing with accusations from a decide who says misinformation and ignorance had been behind the lawyer normal’s choice final week to dismiss him because the commissioner main a high-profile inquiry.
Provincial courtroom Judge Warren Zimmer was appointed in July 2018 to guide the fatality inquiry that investigated why Afghanistan warfare veteran Lionel Desmond killed three relations and himself in 2017.
In a July 6 letter to inquiry attorneys, Zimmer says the federal government’s suggestion that he delayed the inquiry course of is offensive, and he accuses Attorney General Brad Johns of being blind to the complexity of the inquiry course of.
Two days earlier, Premier Tim Houston mentioned his authorities determined to switch the decide as a result of Zimmer’s ultimate report was taking too lengthy to finish, and the premier went on to say “it wasn’t clear … a report was forthcoming.”
Zimmer’s letter, nonetheless, consists of an excerpt from a earlier letter to the federal government stating that as of June 30, he deliberate to have his report completed in August.
Zimmer was set to retire as a decide in March 2022, a month earlier than the inquiry’s hearings concluded, however his time period was prolonged 4 occasions over the previous 18 months to permit him to finish the report. The authorities determined to not prolong his time period on July 4.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 10, 2023.
