Prime Minister Harper was asked why the government has not created a Royal Inquiry into the disappearance and murder of Native women. His answer was that these acts and incidences are crimes against people and therefore the police investigations are good enough (my paraphrase basically)
Of course liberal leaning individuals have made all sorts of comments on the "person" of the Prime Minister instead of the government policy. The comments have nothing to do with the answer nor the question. All the comments I have read so far on this story are nothing more than comments made by idiots.
I have a question though: What would a Royal Commission or Inquiry achieve? First of all we know that many First Nation women are abused, murdered, and go missing. The reported crimes and incidences are there. The investigations often come to an end for one reason or another - mostly because the investigators have nothing more to go on that would push their investigations further.
To say that these murders and disappearances are a "social pandemic" does not even come close to finding a result or solving these crimes. To say that these events are a "social pandemic" then so are the murders and disappearance of non-native victims as well. Gang violence - are these social pandemics as well and if so where is, if any, a Royal Commission or Inquiry into gang violence and what did it accomplish.
Yes there was a study done, but what were the parameters and what did this study accomplish?
As I write this post - a new report came over the radio that another First Nations woman has gone missing. Again is this a crime? Is this an incident of special significance? There are reports of non-native missing persons as well. So again - Is this a social pandemic? What would an Inquiry accomplish that we already don't know?
These are just some of my thoughts that I have.
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