Appendix A

Recommendations/lessons learned by event

Recommendations/lessons learned by event
Event Prevention-centred recommendations/lessons learned Victim-centred recommendations/lessons learned
Air India bombing
  • Improving oversight of aviation security (including government & industry coordination/communication)
  • Improving risk management
  • Improving intelligence
  • Improve airport security
  • Created of archive to honour victims
  • Created Air India Family Association to:
    • Liaise with RCMP & AG
    • Lobby for fair monetary settlements
École Polytechnique
  • Social and legislative initiatives, including
    • House of Commons Sub-Committee on the Status of Women
    • Establish Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women
    • Establish foundation to support anti-violence organizations
    • Adopt policy to prevent domestic abuse, which help to create the Coalition for Gun control
  • Confront sexism, discrimination and gender-based violence on university campuses
  • Enhance University campus safety measures
  • Advance education on gender-based violence in universities
Giant Mine disaster
  • Safety and prevention strategies, including:
    • Inspectors be responsible for regular site visits to ensure compliance with safety regulations
    • Inspectors have the authority to suspend operations when safety violated
Vernon massacre
  • Improving police and Crown training to deal with violence against women
  • Enhance police computer data systems
  • Strengthening screening process to obtain firearm licenses
Mayerthorpe shootings
  • RCMP implement a formal threat assessment system to obtain background information
  • RCMP appoint a Threat Assessment Coordinator
  • RCMP develop detailed scene security protocols
  • RCMP create an Active Shooter Response Program
  • RCMP invest in improved body armor
  • RCMP develop an Emergency Medical Response Team Program for ensure timely medical assistance
Calgary stabbings
  • Including "prohibited conduct" in Non-Academic Misconduct Policy
  • Create materials on how to react if there is an active assailant on campus
  • Create initiative to build cohesive community on campus and develop personal resiliency
  • Create Mental Health Task Force
  • Offer 24-hour counselling and grief support to students, staff and faculty
  • Reschedule exams for students who need it
  • Reach out to provide to families and students
Moncton attack
  • Enhance officer training for active shooter scenarios
  • Improve resource allocation to access appropriate equipment and tactical support
  • Strengthen inter-agency collaboration
  • Introduced Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Guide and established CISM team
  • Introduced Revised Fallen Members Guide
Ottawa shooting
  • Developed a curriculum for secondary school students to reduce prejudice and hate crime
  • Improved inter-governmental operational and security coordination
  • Tightened security on Parliament Hill, including enhanced radio communication and a security awareness program for parliamentarians and staff
Edmonton mass shooting
  • Public education as a prevention tool for domestic violence, including
    • Use of domestic violence risk assessment tools
    • Expand best practice training for healthcare workers to provide care to suspected perpetrators and/or victims of family violence
    • Create a public education campaign as a proactive tool against family violence
  • Coordinated investigations to address gaps in response to family violence
  • Improve service coordination between government and community agencies
  • Focus on immigrant families
  • Enhance support systems to protect those at risk of domestic violence
Renfrew Country triple murder
  • Declare intimate partner violence (IPV) an epidemic, create a provincial IPV Commission, and adopt an all-of-government approach with formal oversight and compliance reporting on recommendations
  • Improve information-sharing between criminal, family, and civil courts; create a universal police records system; strengthen firearms reporting to the Chief Firearms Officer; and enhance PAL (firearms licence) screening tied to IPV risk
  • Integrate IPV prevention and healthy-relationship curricula in schools and post-secondary institutions, with trained teachers and IPV professionals delivering content
  • Provide specialized, mandatory IPV training for police, Crowns, probation officers, and other justice personnel; establish IPV specialists in each police detachment
  • Fund and expand services for offenders (e.g., counselling, group programs, hotline for men), address root causes like housing and financial instability, and ensure cross-agency service coordination
  • Strengthen high-risk offender committees, develop standardized IPV risk assessments, review bail/probation conditions, and enhance rural police resources for quicker tactical response
  • Explore creating a femicide category, adding coercive control as a criminal offence, reviewing the mandatory charging framework, and amending laws to support stronger offender management
  • Establish an IPV Commission with stable funding, appoint a Survivor Advocate, and ensure survivors inform risk assessments and justice system decisions
  • Require direct survivor–probation officer communication, ensure timely public safety alerts, and expand safe rooms, second-stage housing, and IPV registries
  • Create an emergency fund for survivors, improve equitable rural IPV service funding, and expand cell/internet access in remote areas for safety and service reach
  • Develop IPV-focused court models, allow remote testimony, enhance court supports, and consider restorative justice in appropriate cases while prioritizing survivor safety
  • Implement electronic monitoring for high-risk offenders, ensure survivor notification of breaches, and oppose firearm return requests in IPV cases
  • Launch inclusive, multilingual IPV awareness campaigns tailored to rural realities, create “Safe Spaces” in businesses, and improve OPP–Victim Services information flow
  • Reconvene stakeholders one year after verdict to review progress and consider a Royal Commission to make the justice system more victim-centric and responsive
Quebec Mosque shooting
  • Government of Canada created the Action Plan on Combating Hate to prevent and confront hate in Canadian communities. Activities include:
    • Increased community security funding
    • Funding grassroots organizations to counter hate and racism
    • Enhancing tracking of hate incidents
    • Strengthening public education by promoting anti-hate education
  • Action Plan on Combating Hate includes victim services, such as:
    • Financial assistance through Victims Fund
    • Enhanced victim services including counseling, legal assistance, medical attention, and help navigating legal system
    • Community-based support by establishing safe spaces and support networks
    • Specialized training for Crown prosecutors
Toronto van attack
  • Implementing Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design strategies
  • Prepare comprehensive victim assistance plans that include:
    • Account for visible and invisible injuries
    • Accessible and responsive compensation schemes
    • Involve social workers or advocates as needed
Nova Scotia mass shooting
  • Violence prevention strategies to address gender-based violence, including adopting a public health approach, creating safe places to report violence, and replacing mandatory arrest and charging policies and protocols
  • Community safety and wellbeing strategies, including developing gender-based violence and by-stander intervention education campaigns and including rural communities in decision-making procedures
  • Gun control policies, including revoking or suspending licenses for those suspected of violent behaviour and reducing gun trafficking
  • Policing reforms to support victims that address duty of care and communication when working with victims
  • Policing system reforms for working with victims, including victim management responses and communication systems
  • Developing a national action plan for mental health care, mental health literacy, and support services for victims
  • Addressing barriers reporting gender-based and intimate partner violence
  • Strategies to support affected communities, such as creating peer support groups
London truck attack
  • Address Islamophobia through training, education, and updating government policies and procedures
  • Education around Islamophobia
  • Develop legislation addressing online hate and social media algorithms
  • Develop police hate crimes units
  • Increase funding to initiatives addressing Islamophobia
James Smith Cree Nation stabbings
  • Assign consistent correctional case managers, increase elder and program availability in corrections, ensure domestic-violence-specific programming before release, and improve health/mental health service staffing
  • Fully staff RCMP specialized units (Warrant Enforcement, Crime Reduction, Trafficking Response), prioritize high-risk domestic violence offenders, and share “Most Wanted” lists with detachments and First Nations leadership
  • Create a national alerting system with a dangerous person category; ensure house numbering, street signs, and updated mapping for emergency response
  • Standardize domestic violence risk assessment tools for CSC and PBC staff, train psychologists in validated DV assessment methods, and improve Board member training on DV risk factors
  • Notify local police and First Nations when offenders with community ties are unlawfully at large; engage First Nations in elder recruitment for rehabilitation programs
  • Expand community-based programs addressing addictions, adverse childhood experiences, IPV, traditional parenting, and victim services; advertise services to both offenders and residents
  • Develop programs for family and community support persons to help create safe reintegration environments for offenders
  • Build sustained RCMP–community relationships, encourage safe/anonymous crime reporting, and maintain regular updates between police and leadership on public safety threats
  • Increase hiring of Elders in corrections and expand culturally relevant programming for Indigenous offenders to reduce reoffending and strengthen community healing
  • Ensure offenders and communities have access to timely medical and mental health care, with follow-up by parole officers to support continuity of care
  • Provide residents with community resource guides, ensure visibility of available services, and promote community-wide engagement in safety planning