Even when the person in question has butchered multiple people and wounded more, it is a Canadian priority to avoid misgendering at all costs.
That much was clear when Dwayne McDonald, deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, updated the media on the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, where nine people, including the gunman, were killed and about 25 wounded, according to theBBC.
Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, killed a female teacher, two male students, three female students, his mother, and his stepbrother. Van Rootselaar then killed himself.
In Canada we don’t have mankind, we have People-kind. When a mentally ill man murders a bunch of school children we don’t refer to him as a gunman, we prefer “gunperson.”
This is all so dark and so far from reality, it’s difficult to comprehend.pic.twitter.com/BORFzHSXlT
— John-Paul Berg (@SemperVeritasX)February 12, 2026
RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd began the usage of curious words when he called Van Rootselaar a “deceased gunperson,” as shown in a videopostedto X.
McDonald then doubled down on that by saying, “We identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media,” in avideo postedto X.
School shootings should be deemed Domestic Terrorism, and the culprits called terrorists not “gunperson”
— The Man In The Arena (@7_investor)February 12, 2026
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