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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The trust (or lack of) is the major issue and I don't blame them, but I really don't want to believe that the Canadian government can't earn it back.
That's why an inquiry into missing aboriginal women is necessary IMO. It's great that the RCMP have determined what might have happened, but that isn't the purpose of the inquiry. The purpose is to figure out the conditions that allowed it to happen and persist for so long. It's stuff like this that will help earn some trust and hopefully enough that one day we can take bigger steps to correct the mistakes that keep them in poverty.
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The other problem is that the RCMP have a long history of treating First Nations people with complete contempt and really not taking a lot of the reported crimes seriously, so I think that needs to be a big focus of the inquiry. What I would also like to see is this being a primarily indigenous project. Give them the resources they need to conduct a thorough inquiry but don't have a bunch of white people try to run the show. I'm not saying hand it over to the chiefs and the band leaders either. There are a whole bunch of really intelligent and talented aboriginal men and women across the country who would be extremely valuable if given prominent roles in this inquiry.