But what are the questions?

 Everyone seems to know the answers to what ails natives, but no one ever asks the questions?  Sans question, the answer is always "more money", but isn't $16.8 billion enough for 1,674,000 natives?  I'd think so, but no one ever mentions this.  Why?!

Read a sad story in 'The Globe and Mail' today about six Inuit women who were being sentenced for public drunkenness.  All had large families, but here they were being charged for abandoning their children while in drunken states.  As a mother, this disturbs me greatly.  

Then we have the story of Joyce Echaquan, the native woman who filmed her own death in a hospital in the Maritimes.  A mother of seven, she was also found drunk and on Meth in the public thoroughfare.  Again, no one ever mentions the problem:  Remote reservations where there is nothing to do but collect money, drink and do drugs.  

What does the media talk about?  How she was tortured and left to die.  Why did the nurses and orderlies tell her she had no one to blame but herself?  Because that was the truth.  To be so dismissive of, and fed up with, Ms. Echaquan, they must have seen countless cases such as hers.  Is it any wonder that they simply threw up their hands and tried to treat her?  The easy answer was to fire a couple of people, so that's what they did.  Ms. Echaquan, however, remains a mother-of-the-year saint.   

The media NEVER talks about the huge resources given natives.  NEVER.  Today on 'Power Play' Evan Solomon interviewed Bob Fife and all Bob went on about was how 34% of all inmates are native, yet represent only 2% of the population.  Why is that, Bob?  Ever asked yourself?  No, because that's another question no one ever answers.  Again, remote reservations in which there is nothing meaningful to do.  And the other question is:  Why are they stuck on these reservations?  Because that's how their leaders get money via The Indian Act.     

And then we have the never-ending marches about 'Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children'.  The RCMP stats tell you who's murdering them:  Their own relatives.  Look them up.  It's all so wrong and tragic for natives to be treated and duped like this by their own leadership.  They are the ones who suffer, not their leaders.  Perry Bellegarde should hang his head in shame.