Veterans Affairs conducted an internal review into the day an Afghanistan veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder shot his family and then himself — but the department is refusing to share its findings with the ongoing provincial fatality inquiry.
The inquiry, which seeks to prevent deaths like those of Lionel, Shanna, Brenda and 10-year-old Aaliyah Desmond, only learned of the review last week, more than a year after Judge Warren Zimmer began hearing evidence.
Veterans Affairs lawyers say it falls outside the inquiry’s purview.
That’s because
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