I have only seen media articles concerned about public safety, i.e., not letting the public know that there was a shooter on the Alaska Highway. No one was demanding that murder victims be identified to the public sooner. This is one of those straw man arguments. The problem was in holding back the fact that two people had been shot dead, and this in the peak of tourist season, in a place where police are hours away.
There is another problem with continuing to tell the public that the murder of LD was not related to the two shooting deaths, but this is not mentioned as much. Instead of saying it was not related, they could have said they didn't know yet, but be careful out there.
I think the handling of this will become a political football in parliament in the fall. It's a federal election year, and this is bound to happen. The RCMP fall under the federal public safety minister's responsibility.
No one knew that there was a shooter on the loose. It was equally possible that the murders were related to a love triangle, so there was no reason to assume the worst before the facts were known. As I've said, if the vehicle could have been connected to the victims, the investigation would have moved a lot faster.
This is not a political football. Police said the investigation was "fluid" and we know that they need to confirm facts before they make announcements. That is exactly what happened.
If you want to blame someone for the delay in the identification of the victims and therefore the delay in the release of facts, blame the suspects. They removed all ID from the victims.