The biggest myth regarding 15-year-old Tina was also the most endearing to the M&M crowd — only hours before she disappeared, to be eventually killed by a person or persons unknown, two Winnipeg policemen had her in their custody but let her go her merry way despite the fact that she had been reported as a missing person.
If only they had done their job, she would be alive today. If only, if only…
Then, fourteen months ago (yes, a year and two months ago) The Black Rod reported exclusively that Tina Fontaine WAS NOT MISSING when the police met up with her in the early morning of Aug. 8, 2014. Nobody informed police that she was a missing person until the following day, Aug. 9, 2014.
That detail was available in plain sight in numerous news stories about Tina Fontaine’s disappearance, but none of the “professional” reporters had bothered to put two and two together, no doubt because the truth ruined a perfectly good narrative.
It is always easier to find someone to blame than take responsibility . We are going to spend millions to have an inquiry as to why there are missing and murdered women , yet I believe 80 + % of these cases have been solved. If the parents or community of this young lady had been looking after this young lady it is far less likely we would be talking about this tradegy . That the facts are incorrectly reported ,well what a surprise ! If I don’t look after my own kids, I can hardly be outraged when some one else fails in the attempt to do so.
The Missing and Murdered campaign is another avenue for policy-based evidence making. The policy is the familiar identity-politics vote-buying scheme. The scheme has broad appeal for most progressives who noisily subscribe to it for purposes of signalling their selfless compassionate moral illustriousness. It also serves as a make-work project giving untold numbers of lawyers and assorted bureaucrats the opportunity to line their pockets courtesy of the public purse.
The RCMP has already reported on this. The facts are clearly known.
About 90% of murders are solved for both aboriginal and non-aboriginal women in Canada.
Aboriginal women represent about 4% of the female population in Canada and account for 16% of homicides.
Aboriginal women are most likely to be killed by an acquaintance (30%), a spouse (29%), family member (23%), someone from an intimate relationship (10%) or a stranger (8%).
Aboriginal women are most likely to be killed by a beating (32%), a stabbing (31%) or shooting (16%).
The rate of homicide for aboriginal women has dropped almost in half from 1996 to 2011.
The typical aboriginal homicide victim is younger, unemployed, has a history of illegal activity and consumed an intoxicant shortly before her murder.
http://www.canada.com/life/Aboriginal+women+over+represented+murder+statistics+RCMP/9846399/story.html
Here is a link to the 23 page RCMP report. Grab a coffee…
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1160567/mmaw-english-final-may16.pdf
It’s all about responsibility on all fronts and we know where it needs to start but that would meet with outrage from that source right on down the line. Spending millions on an inquiry will not solve a damned thing we don’t already know.
Spoiling the narrative indeed.
The real story – the dysfunctional reality of much of Canada’s Indian population – isn’t even hidden between the lines; it’s out in the open for everyone to see but no one in the media had or has the guts to point that out. And until that happens, there’ll be more Tinas. It will be a subject that any enquiry ordered up by turdo la doo will carefully skirt as well.
Tina Fontaine’s father was stomped on, beaten, tied up behind a shed and left to die in 2011 after a 3 day “bender” on the reserve with the 2 men who killed him and which ended in an argument over money.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/tina-fontaine-s-family-weeps-as-men-who-killed-father-apologize-1.2798910
An example of poor reporting (globe and mail link) refers to the demand for an inquiry into the 1,100 “missing and murdered [aboriginal] women”. In fact, of the 1,100 women murdered only 105 are still missing. The other 90% of the murders have been solved and the perpetrators are known.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/fathers-killing-a-turning-point-in-life-of-slain-teen/article20148415/
Exactly! Especially so since there have been previous inquiries and none of them changed anything.
As was mentioned a number of times in the comments above, everybody knows why this is happening even though most in the media and political class choose to hide their heads in the sand over the problem and solutions.
In fact, a step in the right direction, the previous government’s accountability act, has basically been gutted at the end of last week by PM Le Fluff, and nothing will change after the coming multi-million dollar inquiry. It is a foregone that this problem is our fault and the cheques will continue and increase in size.
Neither “First Nations” themselves nor governments yet appear redy to face indigenous issues with anything resembling brutal honesty and complete candour.
Until they do, expect a continuing boondoggle filled with wishful thinking, platitudes and grievance-mongering at taxpayer expense.
Sunny ways, anybody?
(Personally, I tend to avoid native issues completely because discussion is pointless and they lead nowhere.)
Oops!
Make that “ready” vice “redy”.
I obviously need another coffee.
Something else you don’t see on CBC
They should be focussing on missing/murdered aboriginal MEN.
The cynic in me says that the Libs actually know that an enquiry is pointless but they will go ahead anyway because it allows them to funnel taxpayer money to various hangers on – liar/lawyers, compliant judges and various “consultants”.
Don’t bother with an inquiry, just cut Tony Merchant a cheque today. He’s 71 years old and making him wait until another inquiry is completed is cruel.
None of the other 50 or so inquiries blamed white men. This one will.
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in other aboriginal news… chief of afn says doing away with audits
of 12 billion given to aboriginal chiefs will improve accountability.
using this logic, i’m wondering… “would removing the onus to
momentarily cease forward motion at stop signs improve
traffic safety?”
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The whole situation is a mess and there is no way out, possibly ever.
Perhaps public companies should stop reporting their finances.
They should be focusing on ending apartheid rather than reinforcing it.
M&M is a clever political scam. The Liberals will garner support from the international community
FN’s and all Progressive’s in Canada.We will be paying for future tax increase with our own tax dollars while lining the pockets of Liberal partisans and buying Liberal voters for years.
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norman says… the RCMP recently confirmed Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s claim that 70 per cent of indigenous women’s murderers are indigenous men.”
and in the resultant media firestorm the rcmp also said they would no longer release statistics related to aboriginal homicides.
how many of the remaining 30% of aboriginal women were junkie hookers… a demographic with a (cough, cough) slightly higher rate of “death by violence” than, say… aerobics instructors or kindergarden teachers?
just askin’.
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I hung around a native for about 2 years.
patted myself on the back for finally getting some straight-from-the-source inside knowledge of native issues.
I would cash the guy’s paycheques on my bank acct so he didn’t have to pay the ‘payday loan’ usury fees.
he hightailed to Hamilton when things got a little hot.
The bank sent back a cheque that cost me almost $500. I concluded the whole ‘native’ thing is a con game. I should have paid attention to my dog that always growled when he showed up. no duff. pay attention to your critters when it comes to financial issues !! LOL !!!
Prime Minister Trudeau has cancelled the Conservative initiative on accountability for public funds. This to keep information public especially for the people on the reserves as to their chiefs.
The chiefs must just love him for this. Laughing all the way to the bank, I presume.
Rather than initiating another ultra expensive report, why couldn’t the government simple research the many reports already gathering dust in Library of Canada. First required reading should be the 5 vol 4000 page report from 1991 Royal Commission on Aboriginal People.This costly report touched on every aspect of native life. More obviously the Truth and Reconciliation Commission contains 94 calls to action, surely this touches on crime and social problems.Or they could dig out the 1969 White Paper On Indian Policy by J Chretien, the one that suggested abolishing the Indian Act and special legal relationship between natives and the Canadian state. That one should have been implemented. This is a partial list, there are probably many more reports covering similar ground. Nothing new is to be learned from another expensive, detailed analysis of aboriginal problems, the same problems studied 46 years ago.
Mustn’t let the true facts ruin a good excuse to have an expensive and time consuming inquiry at taxpayer’s expense of course. Turdeau Jr has to pay back his cronies somehow. I mean party faithful.
Pssst, Want a position on a board of inquiry? Naaa, you don’t have to attend anything. Yeah, you’ll get an expense account.
To the omnipotent progressive, time and space doesn’t matter, so the narrative can be re-arranged as necessary provided we stay on messaqe: racist society caused the abroriginal womens’ crisis because society is racist. Humans caused global warming because humans cause global warming (actually the current king of time/space maneuvering); and a slight variation – no need to balance budgets because they balance themselves (c’mon look at a company balance sheet, it’s balanced; income statement – what’s that?).
All fed with fantasies: natives damaging each other is the fault of outsiders; a minor greenhouse gas with a pitiful human contribution is warming the earth; and government “investment” and taxation results in a positive return by creating jobs and spurring economic growth (when history shows the opposite is true). What a fortunate coincidence for them the solutions all involve spending vast sums of taxpayer dollars!
Luckily our awesome nice hair and trendy lesbian leadership (aka identity politics) isn’t a big meanie like Harper who made us spend responsibly and look at the world realistically. It was his fault then, it’s the world’s fault now and it will be Harper’s fault again when statists run out of OP$.
Now the new Tories want to look like buttoned-down Grits to recapture Southern ON. Oh the futility of it all. Should we have rejected Harper’s politics? We should have been more bold, we should have opened up the coffers offering gobs of wasted dollars to interest groups as evidence of virtue and wisdom. We should have given the hijab wearer a parade. We should have whipped our jets out of Iraq. Think of what would happened if we actually had cut taxes to the poor. What a novel idea; it hasn’t been tried in a century (it didn’t happen in Canada because Harper moved the poor to the middle class where they went into crisis). No, let’s be Lib lite, little Stanfields, standing off to the side and shanking the kick.
No thanks, grass roots appeal, kind of like Trump but without the over the top verbosity, and sounder policy. But, not from the “centre out;” no, from the bottom up and legitimized by limited government.
Excellent as ever. love me some black rod.
I was born and raised in a small town in Northern Manitoba. Within an hour’s drive there were five Indian Reservations, now called,in a pc fit of grandiosity, “First Nations”.
Those third world dogpatches were somehow through the magic of government bureaucracy and political panderers transformed into glorious Nations, under the good governance of a Chief and his relatives on the Band Council,or FN parliament,as one FN near home called their corrupt little cabal.
I love the fancy names they now have, “Sagkeeng First Nation ” etc.,whereas before they were simply Camperville,Duck Bay,Salt Point,Meadow Portage,Skownan,
Pine Creek,etc.
When I was back home this Summer for my home town’s 100 year anniversary,I met several guys,some descendants of people I went to school with, and when I asked them where they were from, NOT one replied with the new First nation monicker, but Camperville, Duck Bay, Salt Point,etc.
I guess the proud new First Nation designation doesn’t matter much to the folks who live in the glorious place,as they watch the Chief and his cronies do the same as they always did, spend most of the money on themselves, while calling themselves a fancy new name.
I welcome the shiny new Minister Carolyn Bennett (Ontario) – Indigenous and Northern Affairs, whose Ministry once was called the Minister of Indian Affairs, a blatantly racist term, and now can’t wait to see the bewilderment and disappointment of said MoINA after four years of beating her head against a brick wall of Indian politician machinations.
This situation will never change until we have a massive change in demographics in this Country, as FN Chiefs are very happy to keep things just as they are, notwithstanding the efforts of naive Canadian big city politicians.
So, hold another inquiry,appoint a Liberal crony,pay him/her about $1500 a day plus expenses,and pour lots more money into the Ministry.It’s what we Other Canadians have come to expect, and we’ve never been disappointed.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/Gordon-Sinclair-Jr-362051571.html
“Big Tina (Tina’s mother) was 12 when she met Eugene, who was 24. And 14 when she had her first child. Little Tina would follow, then Sarah, who is now 15. And pregnant.”
Does the above tell you a lot and the multi million dollar enquiry is not necessary.
Harper tried to do something albeit small to address the entitled, dysfunctional, corrupt aboriginal chiefs and communities of this country, but not surprising they attacked him and said “vote Liberal”. I have worked with aboriginals, had business dealings with them and lived in Regina Saskatchewan when I was young–one of the aboriginal cesspools of the west. When I go back, I see that nothing much has improved over the years in spite of all the money that has been spent trying to “fix” the problem. When I worked with natives hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted on trying to educate them. They always told me, we’re not Canadian, we’re ???Nation, you are on our land, that’s why we don’t pay taxes and you have to pay us. Our politicians are afraid to tell it as it is and nothing will change until government changes the way they deal with them and it isn’t going to happen under Turdeau. So far he has demonstrated quite clearly he doesn’t give a damn about Canada or Canadians.
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“peter b. says… “Big Tina (Tina’s mother) was 12 when she met Eugene, who was 24.”
yeah… it’s just a freakin’ mystery…
“The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than
for other children in Canada.”
Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on
Comparable Health Indicators 2002. Ottawa: Health Canada.
prime minister care bear should read a few government studies before he breaks
open the piggy bank.
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“The typical aboriginal homicide victim is younger, unemployed, has a history of illegal activity and consumed an intoxicant shortly before her murder.”
And the typical aboriginal who is not a victim of homicide is unemployed, has a history of illegal activity and consumed an intoxicant shortly before any activity.
The elephant in the room is 70% + are murdered by the same aboriginals
CBC ended all comments on Native stories, why, because like the climate change BS, the left needs to control the narrative and hide the truth to further their agenda of taking as much money from the middle class and moving it to the fringe that they catering to.