That would have been the sensible thing to do, as would be looking into the COVID mandates and protocols, the reporting based on race and gender, the "safe" injection supplies/sites, the open-border policies, the impacts of reduced or eliminated minimum sentencing, the speech police policies, and so on. Anyone with any sense would reflect on, examine, assess, analyze, and investigate the legitimacy of the decisions, actions, outcomes, and consequences associated with these issues.
One would expect that is a given; it is what the servants of the people- the elected officials- are tasked with and paid to do!
A Royal Commission certainly would be a desirable approach to this issue, but in practicality, it is the Cadillac solution to a Volkswagen problem. The RCMP have jurisdiction over reserves and Indians and do not have to say, "may I" to perform their jobs. None of what we have encountered would have happened if their initial investigation had not been obstructed by Murray Sinclair and his Liberal sycophantic cronies. Obstruction of justice is a criminal offense, which in the interest of "Nation to Nation Indigenous Relationships" has been conveniently ignored. All that is needed is to simply allow the RCMP to do their job and this whole debacle could be solved in the time it would take to permit backhoes to perform excavations. Surely the notorious serial killer, Robert Pickton, must have went to his grave feeling aggrieved that he did not receive the same consideration as his indigenous neighbors.
It is often said that, "you cannot male a silk purse out of a sows ear" nor can you afford native indigenous bands nationhood status comparable to the country that supports them.
As the famous American jurist, Oliver Wendall Holmes once said, "Let justice prevail or the heavens fall".
You're so right, Kemosabe. If this had been investigated immediately and appropriately in 2021, there'd be no need for any kind of expensive inquiry. Even if such an inquiry was commissioned today, it would stretch out over so many years that all traces of incriminating evidence will be so well buried that even GPR couldn't discover them.
"All that is needed is to simply allow the RCMP to do their job . . ."
Over on Glavin's substack yesterday I made the suggestion that the RCMP's new commissioner should be asked to step up to the blackboard and write 100 times, "Shouldn't the RCMP be investigating these crimes?"
Some time back I contacted the D.M. of Crown Indigenous Affairs who chaired the committee that Sinclair approached and asked him who was responsible for cancelling the RCMP investigation. To his credit, he did write back, as so many don't, and assured me that it would be illegal to intervene on an RCMP investigation. What he didn't tell me was who cancelled it. To answer that question one need only to look at who appointed the RCMP Commissioner at that time and the question becomes self explanatory. Only a narcissistic imbecile would consider himself intellectually superior enough to override the criminal code to allow his vision of Nation to Nation relationships prevail over established law. As my father used to say, "its enough to drive a dog away from a gut wagon". Thanks for your comment.
Had to smile at your typo here: "you cannot male a silk purse out of a sows ear". Get with the times! Nowadays you can certainly "male" a sow, at least.
CBC radio interviewed author Lee Airton this morning because the second edition of their book – *Gender: Your Guide . . .* – has just come out. Professor Airton began by remarking that when they were writing the 1st edition in 2018, most people didn’t know anyone who was trans or non-binary; now almost everyone does, and many trans kids in school are now saying they want to become teachers. It’s just so wonderful! So much has changed in such a short time! https://www.leeairton.com/
The desire to hate the church, the schools, and Canadian history and society is so powerful, the media and many in the public leapt at it - though the story was riddled with insufficiencies from the start, and should have been subjected to demands for rigorous investigation before such conclusions were drawn. They cannot help themselves. Fools they showed themselves and fools they are.
I imagine Nicholas is referring to the recent announcement by the Pimicikamak (Cross Lake) Cree Nation about the results of its GPR surveys, which were completed in 2022 and 2023. (Which makes one wonder why the band is just reporting their findings now. They need funding to continue the investigations, of course.)
<< A First Nation community in northern Manitoba says ground-penetrating radar has found 150 anomalies at the site of a former residential school, including what are believed to be 59 unmarked graves at a nearby cemetery. The chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation also says 37 anomalies have been found off-site, more than a kilometre away from St. Joseph's Residential School. >>
So some GPR hits were at a cemetery, and some were at a site more than a kilometre from the school (must have been some "knowings" involved there), but it makes for an impressive total (187 is what's stated in most media outlets' headlines).
Surely there must be some heavy sighs going down in the newsrooms, by now (?)
Special interlocutor Kimberly Murray will soon put out her report on the residential schools. From the CBC a few days ago: "History of residential school cemeteries is evidence of genocide, interlocutor says. Kimberly Murray issues historical report, an 'antidote to denialism,' as she works toward final report"
Three photographs are shown as evidence of genocide, they appear to be photos of children tending to graves or digging them at a residential school or nearby cemetery. One of them shows roughly two dozen children gathered in the cemetery at Dunbow Industrial School, also known as St. Joseph's, in southern Alberta. In that photo, the children stand amid wooden crosses marking what could be children's graves."
Murray says "We're finding, as you read the report today, that they are in mass graves, they are in common graves, they are in cemeteries, in unmarked mass graves," she said.
The cost of commemoration and research projects at this time, according to the article, is about 216 million dollars.
There needs to be a Petition ‘Signature’ list to be sent out for Canadians to sign on and to be circulated by each Canadian, make it possible to be forwarded to everyone on their own Substack and email, and Messenger and Facebook and you name it every other Social media site so Canadians can ‘Sign’ for this inquiry to be held
Call for Public Inquiry?!
That would have been the sensible thing to do, as would be looking into the COVID mandates and protocols, the reporting based on race and gender, the "safe" injection supplies/sites, the open-border policies, the impacts of reduced or eliminated minimum sentencing, the speech police policies, and so on. Anyone with any sense would reflect on, examine, assess, analyze, and investigate the legitimacy of the decisions, actions, outcomes, and consequences associated with these issues.
One would expect that is a given; it is what the servants of the people- the elected officials- are tasked with and paid to do!
Mad times we are living in! Wake up Canada!
When Poilievre comes in there is going to be hell to pay. Inquiries galore.
GILAKAS'LA
A Royal Commission certainly would be a desirable approach to this issue, but in practicality, it is the Cadillac solution to a Volkswagen problem. The RCMP have jurisdiction over reserves and Indians and do not have to say, "may I" to perform their jobs. None of what we have encountered would have happened if their initial investigation had not been obstructed by Murray Sinclair and his Liberal sycophantic cronies. Obstruction of justice is a criminal offense, which in the interest of "Nation to Nation Indigenous Relationships" has been conveniently ignored. All that is needed is to simply allow the RCMP to do their job and this whole debacle could be solved in the time it would take to permit backhoes to perform excavations. Surely the notorious serial killer, Robert Pickton, must have went to his grave feeling aggrieved that he did not receive the same consideration as his indigenous neighbors.
It is often said that, "you cannot male a silk purse out of a sows ear" nor can you afford native indigenous bands nationhood status comparable to the country that supports them.
As the famous American jurist, Oliver Wendall Holmes once said, "Let justice prevail or the heavens fall".
MEEGWETCH
You're so right, Kemosabe. If this had been investigated immediately and appropriately in 2021, there'd be no need for any kind of expensive inquiry. Even if such an inquiry was commissioned today, it would stretch out over so many years that all traces of incriminating evidence will be so well buried that even GPR couldn't discover them.
"All that is needed is to simply allow the RCMP to do their job . . ."
Over on Glavin's substack yesterday I made the suggestion that the RCMP's new commissioner should be asked to step up to the blackboard and write 100 times, "Shouldn't the RCMP be investigating these crimes?"
Some time back I contacted the D.M. of Crown Indigenous Affairs who chaired the committee that Sinclair approached and asked him who was responsible for cancelling the RCMP investigation. To his credit, he did write back, as so many don't, and assured me that it would be illegal to intervene on an RCMP investigation. What he didn't tell me was who cancelled it. To answer that question one need only to look at who appointed the RCMP Commissioner at that time and the question becomes self explanatory. Only a narcissistic imbecile would consider himself intellectually superior enough to override the criminal code to allow his vision of Nation to Nation relationships prevail over established law. As my father used to say, "its enough to drive a dog away from a gut wagon". Thanks for your comment.
Had to smile at your typo here: "you cannot male a silk purse out of a sows ear". Get with the times! Nowadays you can certainly "male" a sow, at least.
CBC radio interviewed author Lee Airton this morning because the second edition of their book – *Gender: Your Guide . . .* – has just come out. Professor Airton began by remarking that when they were writing the 1st edition in 2018, most people didn’t know anyone who was trans or non-binary; now almost everyone does, and many trans kids in school are now saying they want to become teachers. It’s just so wonderful! So much has changed in such a short time! https://www.leeairton.com/
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
If I were a criminal, I’d move to the Kamloops reserve:
“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) will not investigate unless requested by the Kamloops Band.”
The desire to hate the church, the schools, and Canadian history and society is so powerful, the media and many in the public leapt at it - though the story was riddled with insufficiencies from the start, and should have been subjected to demands for rigorous investigation before such conclusions were drawn. They cannot help themselves. Fools they showed themselves and fools they are.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot" ~ Mark Twain
They are doing in again. Manitoba. Check the CBC X page.
Can you post link? I don't have X....
I imagine Nicholas is referring to the recent announcement by the Pimicikamak (Cross Lake) Cree Nation about the results of its GPR surveys, which were completed in 2022 and 2023. (Which makes one wonder why the band is just reporting their findings now. They need funding to continue the investigations, of course.)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pimicikmamak-residential-school-anomalies-1.7253845
<< A First Nation community in northern Manitoba says ground-penetrating radar has found 150 anomalies at the site of a former residential school, including what are believed to be 59 unmarked graves at a nearby cemetery. The chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation also says 37 anomalies have been found off-site, more than a kilometre away from St. Joseph's Residential School. >>
So some GPR hits were at a cemetery, and some were at a site more than a kilometre from the school (must have been some "knowings" involved there), but it makes for an impressive total (187 is what's stated in most media outlets' headlines).
Surely there must be some heavy sighs going down in the newsrooms, by now (?)
Special interlocutor Kimberly Murray will soon put out her report on the residential schools. From the CBC a few days ago: "History of residential school cemeteries is evidence of genocide, interlocutor says. Kimberly Murray issues historical report, an 'antidote to denialism,' as she works toward final report"
Three photographs are shown as evidence of genocide, they appear to be photos of children tending to graves or digging them at a residential school or nearby cemetery. One of them shows roughly two dozen children gathered in the cemetery at Dunbow Industrial School, also known as St. Joseph's, in southern Alberta. In that photo, the children stand amid wooden crosses marking what could be children's graves."
Murray says "We're finding, as you read the report today, that they are in mass graves, they are in common graves, they are in cemeteries, in unmarked mass graves," she said.
The cost of commemoration and research projects at this time, according to the article, is about 216 million dollars.
There needs to be a Petition ‘Signature’ list to be sent out for Canadians to sign on and to be circulated by each Canadian, make it possible to be forwarded to everyone on their own Substack and email, and Messenger and Facebook and you name it every other Social media site so Canadians can ‘Sign’ for this inquiry to be held