Unabridged Audiobook
Mixed feelings. Excellent amount of detail, graphic & shocking, but even though I support the truth, ugly though it may be, the author weaves far too complicated a web of RCMP cover-ups, misleads, & denials for readers to follow throughout this 20-hour listen that really should have been more about the particular 22 victims of the Portapique (& beyond) murders the title leads readers to believe it will. Instead, it focuses a little too intently on the many misgivings & shortcomings of the Mounties. It is MUCH deserved criticizm & a calling out of their code of silence, but I felt like the tragic loss of 22 lives, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, relatives, friends & neighbors & their forever-shattered loved ones also fell victim to the focus of "getting" the RCMP & "putting them in their place." I do not disagree on its necessity, but feel the stories of the victims & the familial and social impact of those losses should have played a much larger role in this book. The author fell short in delivering that. But that's just me.If it helps foster real change in the RCMP & Canadian policing practices steering towards real truth rather than protecting their own asses, then, maybe, just maybe, it'll have been worth it.But I'm not holding my breath. I doubt many Nova Scotians or any other Canadians are, either.
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