N.S. health authority agrees to meet with Lionel Desmond’s family, sister says
ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Nova Scotia’s health authority has agreed to meet with Lionel Desmond’s immediate family next week, almost six months after the former Canadian soldier fatally shot his mother, wife, daughter and himself in a horrific murder-suicide that renewed debate over how Canada treats former military members with post-traumatic stress disorder.
One of Desmond’s sisters, Chantel, confirmed Monday that the Nova Scotia Health Authority has scheduled a meeting for June 28 at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish, N.S., a half-hour drive from Lionel Desmond’s home in Upper Big Tracadie.
“I feel good, actually,” Chantel Desmond said about the meeting.
The meeting is important to the family because it is expected to focus on the authority’s confidential review of how the province’s health-care system dealt with Lionel Desmond before the killings on or about Jan. 3.