Why does RCMP Commissioner Lucki still have her job?

Finally, someone other than I, is publicly asking that question.  That was the headline of Robyn Urback's column in 'The Globe and Mail' today, as she finally outed the incompetent Lucki.  Urback points to all the f-ck-ups that have occurred on Lucki's watch:

• The 2020 massacre of 22 people in Nova Scotia, during which Lucki was nowhere to be found;
• The political interference she put on senior brass to identify the weapons used in the above;
• The fact that she has effected no change in the culture of the RCMP since her appointment four years ago -- despite vowing it was one of her most important objectives;
• The fact that she secretly suggested members of the armed forces dress up in RCMP uniforms to infiltrate and deal with the truckers convoy;
• The fact that she lied about contacting OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique to suggest they communicate via an app that does not store deleted messages; and
• The gravitas that is now wholly lacking in our national police force and its once sterling reputation, thanks to her incompetence and lack of integrity;

In fact, Maclean's Magazine called for her to resign back in 2020.  Nothing happened.  Lucki has much blood on her hands, as I have repeatedly said, but she is not sacked because the Liberal triumvirate of Trudeau, Blair and Freeland finds it useful to keep her there as justification for the invocation of the Emergencies Act -- i.e., because of Lucki's incompetence and failure to deal with the convoy mess.

The cynicism is breathtaking.  I feel for all the RCMP officers who are now tainted because of this disastrous affirmative action appointment.

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On the Indigenous file -- again -- three stories today highlight what is wrong with this mess.  Within the space of a few pages, I read that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is going to hire a deputy commissioner to address the soaring rates of Indigenous incarceration -- including taking into consideration family background in sentence determination. 

But low and behold, a couple of pages later I read that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Indigenous people do not have a constitutional right to special treatment in the criminal justice system.  What?!  I wholeheartedly agree, but then why is the CSC going to hire a special deputy to do just that?!  Did someone miss this ruling?  Obviously.

On the next page appears another article about "Indigenous identity fraud" whereby non-Indigenous people can simply claim they are native or métis because of....of....um....living with Indigenous people, or marrying them, or being part of their community, or whatever.  

Finally, someone has said that's not enough.  The report's author, métis lawyer Jean Teillet, wrote that applicants to any job must provide evidence supporting their claims to citizenship in an Indigenous group.  Unfortunately, the kicker is that the evidence is determined by the Indigenous communities themselves.  So, that still means that if the community agrees, anyone can claim he or she is Indigenous.

What a never-ending mess.