To do what?

I know I go on, but what exactly is the point of the missing indigenous women inquiry?  Folks, the facts are in.  These women were engaging in very risky behaviour and it caught up with them.  I mean, if you are a drug-addicted prostitute you are taking a chance with your life every time you go on a "date", as they call their encounters.  Got nothing really to do with being "indigenous".   

And if they weren't killed by their "dates", they were killed by men they knew well.  The RCMP stats tell the tale, so what traipsing around the country listening to families cry is going to accomplish I have absolutely no clue?  It won't bring their loved ones back and it won't change the facts. 

To top it off, the commission now wants another year or two because it still hasn't got its act together.  No actual hearings have been held!  We are being held hostage by this hugely costly mess -- now to be compounded exponentially by the splitting up of the department of indigenous affairs.  That is a cute trick to play for time, while everyone readjusts and plays musical political chairs.

Looking back and dwelling on the past is futile.  Let's look forward and make some real progress.  Start by getting off the reserves and integrating into mainstream Canadian life.  You can still be a native and celebrate your culture -- just as the Irish, Polish, Chinese and every other ethnic group does -- but don't sit and stew pathetically in it.  Too bad your leaders won't let it happen because that's how they get their money.  Wake up.