Jumping On the Band Wagon

Never let a good crisis go to waste:

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, who represents Nunavut, said she has seen far too many friends and Inuit in her territory dying by suicide and children being taken from their homes and placed in the child welfare system.

 

And why is that, Miss Qaqqaq? 

I'll leave this right here:

“When we talk about abuse, often there are other things going on. It could be, a parent is also being abused and the child is witnessing and going through the abuse themselves,” says Uluadluak, from Arviat, who has worked with Nunavut’s Department of Child and Family Services for 23 years.

All verbal, physical or sexual abuse can lead to other trauma within families, she said.

“There’s a lot of abuse going on in the homes,” she said. “There’s more that we don’t see or hear. It’s very sad that this is a common thing happening in some communities, that it almost becomes normal.”

In Nunavut, rates of child abuse are 10 times higher than in the rest of Canada, according to an Iqaluit-based child advocacy group, the Umingmak Centre.

Words really do matter:

First Nations Chief Rosanne Casimir told reporters on Friday that the remains claimed to have been discovered at a former residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia were “not a mass grave” according to preliminary findings.  ...

“This is not a mass grave. These are preliminary findings. We will be sharing the written report in the middle of the month,” said Casimir. 

Early reports by mainstream media outlets like the Toronto Star referred to the burial sites as “mass graves” despite the discovery still undergoing a preliminary investigation.

There goes that Narrative.

And this one:

What then about the pope? In 2009, after years of sincere dialogue between Catholic bishops in Canada and Indigenous representatives, Pope Benedict XVI received a delegation at the Vatican. It was led by Phil Fontaine, then-national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. It was a historic moment of contrition, sorrow, reconciliation and healing. Fontaine’s address on that occasion is one of the most poignant and illuminating on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Indigenous peoples of Canada.

At the time, it was considered the “final piece” of a nearly 20-year process of reconciliation that “closed the book,” in the words of Fontaine. So all the parties were confident that a good measure of healing had taken place: apologies were offered, and apologies were accepted.

 

 

If any court determines the things that fall out of Justin's mouth as truth or that they carry any weight, this country would be bankrupt before the Liberals would have a chance to rob the coffer further:

Bruno Gelinas-Faucher, a University of Montreal law professor, said that if a court was determining whether Canada committed genocide, it would assess whether the acts in question amount to genocide under international law and consider whether the country is responsible for those acts.

The missing and murdered women’s inquiry concluded in its 1,200-page report that Canada deliberately and systematically violated racial, gender, human and Indigenous rights.

Gelinas-Faucher said the report attributed the actions of genocide to Ottawa because they were committed by the government or through its guidance or instructions.

 

(Sidebar: and what were those instructions? Make it all look like accidents?)

 Genocide would mean that there was a concerted effort to wipe out all people.

Yet they remain.