The committee monitoring how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia has released its first annual progress report, but it does not include any assessment of the police force's actions.

Myra Freeman,who chairs the independent progress monitoring committee, told a news conference Friday she is encouraged by the "serious commitment" of the federal and Nova Scotia governments to address the inquiry's 130 recommendations.

But she said an asses…