Inspector Dustine Rodier was the officer in charge of 'H' Division Operational Support and Operational Communications Centre on April 18/19, 2020.
She came to Halifax from Vancouver, via Hampton, New Brunswick, where she spent a few years, eventually running the detachment there. She used to fill in as a media spokesperson.
Her husband, Pascal, tagged along with her. He has a solid reputation as an expert in emergency management and has more letters after his name than a British Royal (MStJ, MA, CEM, SAS…). In Nova Scotia, he landed a new job as an emergency preparedness and planning manager at the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
Being married to Pascal for many years and being a Mountie, Dustine Rodier, therefore, has lived most of her adult life immersed in disaster management.
And yet, shortly after 8 a.m. that Sunday morning when it was known that Wortman was armed to the teeth and roving somewhere in the province, the Emergency Management Office was discussing the possibility of issuing an alert. The problem was that it could not break through the RCMP’s wall of silence, as reported by the CBC’s Elizabeth McMillan.
She wrote that Paul Mason, the EMO executive director began raising the alarm at 8:19 a.m. but the Mounties were mute:
Another EMO official, Dominic Fewer, “asked his colleagues to get in touch with Glenn Mason of the RCMP at 11:12 a.m., and Michael Bennett, listed as being the incident commander at the provincial centre, called two minutes later ‘advising we were prepared to use Alert Ready.’
“At 11:21 a.m., Glenn Mason called ‘indicating it would be used’ and asked Bennett to reach out to Insp. Dustine Rodier. After Bennett failed to get through to Rodier twice…”
What was Insp. Rodier doing that morning that she couldn’t take the calls from the EMO seeking to put out a public alert?
Whatever she had done must have been valuable in the eyes of the RCMP.
In March of this year, Rodier got her reward for doing such a good job. She was appointed executive officer to Assistant Commissioner Bergerman.
Rodier is clearly on the path to the top —damn what happened in Nova Scotia.
And that’s the Mountie promotion system in a nutshell.
paulpalango@protonmail.com
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