Couldn't figure out why the 'Missing and Murdered Native Women' inquiry was almost a year behind? Formed nine months ago, the inquiry is under the jurisdiction of Minister Bennett who announced today it would not hold a single hearing until the Fall. Which year she didn't say.
Really?
Naturally, the politically-correct and moribund CBC didn't give any reason why and the native women it interviewed all blamed "the government". Well, of course. So I googled the mess to see who was heading it up and, as I suspected, it's native women and one man who works closely with them -- a recipe for confusion and waaaaay too much consultation.
You can't have a serious inquiry with sweet grass, sweat lodges and smudging. But I can just see everyone tripping all over themselves to "be heard" and fighting over jurisdiction. What a disaster. The inquiry needs rigor and discipline and if it's nine months behind, neither are in force. Oh, and I note that they have fired their second communications director. Par for the course when leaders completely mess up. "Let's fire the messenger."
So, the whole thing will lumber along with internal bickering. It will also be given more than its two-year mandate and extended ad nauseum. Remember Murray Sinclair's dog-and-pony which lasted years, cost millions and achieved nothing? This will be a repeat. And let's not forget that RCMP statistics show that native women are mostly murdered by their boyfriends and husbands.
Mark my words. It'll be a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
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