Hopefully it is for all women.

Haha, is that a direct quote from Dough boy? Hilarious.

When has the CPC ever advocated collaboration?

Bob Zimmer must be disgusted by this abhorrent waste of tax payer’s dollars. He told us in his campaign that this issue has been studied to death and the solution is to simply find these women jobs to keep them on the reserves. It’s that simple.

I thought we already had an inquiry? Was there something wrong with the recommendations? Not enough palms being greased or what?

Fate, that statement just shows Zimmer was clueless to the situation. There where also a few non native women who went missing as well.. wonder if he wanted them to stay on reserves as well.

Axman.. the recommendations where pie in the sky ideas.. Not a lot of logic or thought of implementing them.

“My only concern is to make sure that everything that we’re doing, we’re working with the families, working with the communities, working with the regional agencies to make sure those monies are best spent, or spent in the right way and that the monies that are intended for that actually get spent in the right places.”

What a joke.. a con saying anything of spending money in the right way is hilarious..

Axman.. the recommendations where pie in the sky ideas.. Not a lot of logic or thought of implementing them.

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You have rosier glasses then I if you think the next round of recommendations will be anything else. This inquiry is political payback, plain and simple.

I guess they can close all the RCMP files now these guys will have all the answers soon, then we won’t have to hire any new RCMP ,that will save the tax payer some money . Not Not

We have a child poverty problem, this inquiry will cost say 5 million when the smoke clears. Will the information gathered, be more valuable, than say, using 5 million to alleviate child poverty? Remember, when you are deficit spending (as Trudeau is doing), you can’t always do both. I use child poverty because it’s an issue often brought up on this site as a knock on the government, but it could just as easily be hip operations, MRI’s, road improvements. Whatever money is spent on this inquiry, will not be spent somewhere else. In fact, being borrowed money, it will come with a $150,000 interest bill until a future generation pays it off. I hope whatever they learn, it’s worth what they will spend.

Ski51, BC has had a very high child poverty rate.. and what was the Premiers slogan.. famiiles first..and what has she done.. nothing.

With those numbers… what will harpers 160 billion cost us..and our great grand kids ..YIKES..

Why don’t they give the RCMP money to run a full blown investigation on this to catch the persons responsible. Instead of spending billions on this and in the end that is what they will say anyways.

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 @ 3:30 PM by handycap with a score of 3

Why don’t they give the RCMP money to run a full blown investigation on this to catch the persons responsible. Instead of spending billions on this and in the end that is what they will say anyways.

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I would imagine it would be next to impossible to find out what happened to all of these poor souls. I think the focus is to prevent as many further disappearances as possible.

You will never stop it because there are a lot of sick people out there and a lot of young people that think they are invincible.

PVal, depends on what Harper spent all 160 billion on. If he spent most of it on infrastructure, then future generations will also benefit from the use of it, so they should pay for some of it. Just like us, there’s good debt – i.e. buying a house, a car, an education, and there’s bad debt, going on holidays, the pub, a new skidoo. How bad that 160 billion is, depends on what it represents.

This inquiry, may be good debt, may be bad debt. If all it does is give a bunch of retired lawyers, judges, and witnesses cash to hash over what happened, but nothing ever changes – which has been the track record of these inquiries, then that money is bad debt. If it actually reveals something that makes police more efficient, crime reduction etc., then it’s good debt.

Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation John Rustad and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton expressed their support for a national inquiry this morning.

Now there’s a joke–they never ever had any real inerest. The only thing that they excel is to delete FOI emails regarding the Highway of Tears or an inquiry.

I predict that we will spend millions, more than likely tens of millions on this inquiry and the end result will be absolutely nothing of value. In ten years, or even in five years, there will be more calls yet again for more inquiries. Murders will remain unsolved, missing individuals will still be missing, people will still be hitchhiking, especially young people. Nothing will have changed!

I would like to be more optimistic, but reality dictates otherwise!

Sad, but likely very true!

Shouldn’t we include white woman in this investigation? Apparently the bulk of murders are done on the reserves.

As per the Globe and Mail article

All indigenous women who were murdered over the past two years in the parts of Canada that are policed by the RCMP were acquainted with their killers, says a report released by the Mounties as the Conservative government rebuffs calls for a national inquiry to explore the causes of the tragedy.

The new study, which was released Friday, says the problem of Canada’s many missing and murdered aboriginal women is clearly rooted in family violence. It comes several months after Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt angered many indigenous people by saying he knows who is killing aboriginal women – and it is aboriginal men.

link here
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-to-release-update-on-missing-murdered-aboriginal-women/article25033744/

Anyone who reads the RCMP report will immediately see that there are some glaring things that will not reflect well on the current status of first nations life. If I had to guess the reason for this it would be poverty and a lack of economic opportunity mixed with some bad attempts at assimiliation and especially the cruelty and uselessness of residential schools. I hope that this enquiry will be used to expose the abusive and non functional system of reserves and move rapidly to eliminate this root cause of first nations suffering.

Harper missed a chance to air the truth about these things when he declined a national enquiry. I truly hope that the truth comes out.

I have been trying to post a report on this site from the CBC and for some reason it keeps getting pulled. Now come on its from the CBC is that not supposed to be the high standard of reporting in this country, cough cough

It starts off saying Manitoba posts the highest suicide rate in Canada for the 8 th straight year.

Almost a quarter — 23 per cent — of all homicide victims in the country were aboriginal, a group that accounted for just five per cent of the population.

Aboriginal men were seven times more likely to be victims of homicide and aboriginal women were six times more likely compared with the non-aboriginal population, the report indicates.

“I think this issue does still need to be addressed in a gender-specific way,” said Dawn Lavell-Harvard, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada.

“Do they need to call a separate inquiry for aboriginal men or aboriginal people in general? Or do we somehow need to call attention to this? Absolutely.”

The RCMP have detailed their investigation and the results are not nice, most of the crime is native on native and 80% of the crimes have been solved.

It is estimated the inquiry will cost over 50 million and is gender, race specific. Who will be making the money off this, guess, lawyers with nothing solved in the end.

I will be taking a screen shot of this post.

The problem is why the native specific problem in these statistics and should not be made gender specific. The problem is much bigger than gender.

How about spending the money on preventing violence . Unless someone who knows what has happened to some of the missing and murdered comes forward nothing will change.

Get rid of poverty and hunger and you will have less violence.