"It's not enough," say female aboriginal leaders of the terms of reference to the wildly-heralded, just-launched inquiry into missing women. While, "it's not enough" is the usual response to anything done for natives on any front, there are a few facts that are chronically and willfully ignored by both the media and the native community. I wouldn't be going on about this if it weren't splashed all over the front pages and screens of newspapers and televisions all over the country. Unfortunately, the latest 2014/15 RCMP stats on this file fly in the face of the drama and emotion. Here they are:
- There has been a 9.3% reduction in unsolved aboriginal cases;
- Homicide rates are the same for aboriginal and non-aboriginal women, 82% solved;
- The killer in 100% of solved aboriginal cases is known to the women; and
- Only 10% of the 1,750 unsolved cases are aboriginal.
Nevertheless, Trudeau is forging ahead with a teeth-gnashing, multi-million-dollar inquiry which is an insult to the RCMP as the latter continues its work. Carolyn Bennett is constantly photographed weeping in the media sporting native garb and seemingly blissfully blind to any hard facts. This inquiry will be like all the others. People will be crying on the stand and the lazy press will lap it up with gusto. Frankly, we know who is killing aboriginal women: the same friends and relatives who are killing non-aboriginal women.
If you don't believe me, google it.
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Note: Full disclosure, my great-grandmother was a Mohawk.
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