06.04.2019 12:21 PM

It’s this, it’s that, it’s whatever

What we have here is failure to communicate.  Again.

21 Comments

  1. Fred J Pertanson says:

    So, the disappearance of +/- 1000 women and girls (statistically many would have been “disappeared” by husband, immediate family or persons known to them) constitutes “genocide”?

    How can anyone in their right mind compare this to the atrocities that Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc committed?

    A reasonable PM, reviewing the draft report, would have said, “This is over the top. It destroys the credibility of the report. Fix it.”

    However, with JT, you cannot fix stupid.

    • Fred from BC says:

      “So, the disappearance of +/- 1000 women and girls (statistically many would have been “disappeared” by husband, immediate family or persons known to them) constitutes “genocide”?”

      And we don’t even know how many of those have *deliberately* disappeared, as was the case here in Vancouver during the Willie Pickton incident. It didn’t get much fanfare, but they actually did find at least a couple of those ‘missing’ women alive and well…and begging investigators not to use their names or tell any of their family where they were (seems that a married mother with children, in one example, just didn’t want all her new friends and family to know she was an ex-prostitute from Vancouver. Go figure…).

      “How can anyone in their right mind compare this to the atrocities that Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc committed?”

      Obviously they can’t, and that it what make this so irritatingly stupid. Not only are all of us supposedly ‘complicit’ in this mass-murder, they also reportedly want “tougher sentences” for people who kill aboriginal women.

      (wait….WHAT? So who is going to tell all those white, Asian, Hispanic etc women that their lives are no longer as important as as the lives of indigenous women? Holy crap! …what an IDIOTIC idea!)

      “A reasonable PM, reviewing the draft report, would have said, “This is over the top. It destroys the credibility of the report. Fix it.””

      Yes, and that’s the icing on the cake, right there: he originally refused to use the word “genocide”, then was *pressured into it*. He had it right at first, then caved in at the first opportunity.

      You’re right: you really can’t fix stupid.

      • Fred from BC says:

        “Yet, as the RCMP report released a few years ago, the majority of indigenous female homicide victims were killed by indigenous men ”

        I wonder if that fact was mentioned anywhere in the report (or even discussed during the inquiry itself)?

        Better still, the ‘solve rate’ for the murders of native women is virtually identical to the rate for all other women (another fact that we have been aware of for years)…so where exactly is this “genocide” they speak of?

  2. Doug says:

    Genocide is the most serious of accusations. If the PM admits to genocide, his government must follow through with recourse or the integrity of Canada’s legal system is in question. Will former senior government officials, those still alive, be called before tribunal?

    Trudeau had to be thinking for himself again to exhibit such extreme incompetence. No way could the government be in any position to comment on the report as legal guidance would take more than a day to obtain (likely months). This is Trudeau ‘s biggest blunder to date.

  3. whyshouldIsellyourwheat says:

    Genocide requires a criminal justice response. Mulroney, Campbell, Chretien, Martin, Harper, and Trudeau (himself, since according to the MMIWG report, it is ongoing) and their Indigenous Affairs ministers have to be hauled before a “Nuremburg”-like proceeding.

    Once it is a genocide, “heads” have to roll, and the living perpetrators have to be held to account.

    Pierre’s name better be coming off the Montreal Airport.

  4. Peter says:

    Does anyone believe that the use of the word genocide here is anything other than a ploy for political or publicity advantage? To paraphrase the great W. Kinsella, when everything is genocide, nothing is genocide. This report will be met with a general silence with many muttering, sotto voce, “Whatever”.

    What in the world is Trudeau thinking?

    • The Doctor says:

      I can hear the words of my university English composition prof. He talked about how key it is to have and maintain credibility with your audience, and the problems that arise in that regard when you resort to hyperbole and overstate your case.

      231 recommendations, but each of them “mandatory”? Really? Could you not have pared that down just a bit? Piled on top of the, what was it, 94 that we got with the Residential Schools report?

      The word “genocide” has been so overused and misused by activists of various stripes in recent years that it’s ceasing to have any effect on people anymore. Besides which, this particular use of the word just doesn’t pass the common sense smell test.

      In that sense, I really wonder whether the very well-meaning authors of this report did themselves a disservice by using such overloaded language and overreaching in their demands.

      I honestly think the report could have been much more effective if they would have limited themselves to a few key, core demands. Instead, they risk having a lot of Canadians just tune out. There are a lot of people out there who simply tune out when they hear a certain hyperbolic “SJW-speak”.

    • JustSomeAnon says:

      If what’s happened to these people over the last five hundred years isn’t genocide, nothing is.

  5. Gord Tulk says:

    Trudeau had an opportunity for a “sister Soulja” moment and went the other way. He and his party are going to get routed on October as a result.

  6. Allan Rewk says:

    I actually fear adoption of the term genocide will negatively impact many of the positive recommendations in the report. By stating this is an ongoing genocide, my understanding is that there are specific international treaty obligations that could necessitate international intervention, Now I don’t think this will result in an invasion, it burdens us in that debate, rather than moving forward toward tangible and meaningful actions to better the lives of First Nation’s people who have been unfairly marginalized and oppressed for much of our Nation’s history

  7. Jack B says:

    Well the liberals have been in power for almost 2/3rds of Canadas history so if its genocide, then they are culpable. Refer it to the hague. Lets have hearings.

  8. J.H. says:

    I’m betting Trudeau finally resorted to using the word Genocide, when his PMO twinkies pointed out to him that our drive-by journos would focus on that word ad nauseaum, thus sidetracking from any other messages he wanted to get out during this pre-election run up. It’s what our lazy dandy lions of the media do.
    Months & millions of dollars ago, I echoed on here Rona Ambrose’s warning that this would accomplish very little and the report would end up gathering dust on shelves, with all those similar, that millions of trees died for, while
    LPC-friendly lawyers, lobbyists and consultants got rich from the exercise.
    I stand by that prediction.

    • J.H.,

      You know government and their operatives/stakeholders far too well. I gave up counting how many governments were supposed to put the axe in the Indian Act and abolish CIRNAC/ISC and simply start over with First Nations’ management in charge.

      Sure, plenty of Liberals and others got rich but that’s but a symptom of generalized governmental incompetence on this file. Doesn’t matter which party — they are ALL responsible.

    • Fred from BC says:

      “Months & millions of dollars ago, I echoed on here Rona Ambrose’s warning that this would accomplish very little ”

      So did I, and a few others here. All of this has been done before on the provincial (and municipal) level, so no one seriously expected any great revelation at the federal level, did they?

      The politicians demanded a stage, and they got one. Too bad all that money wasted wasn’t put to better use, perhaps improving conditions on reserves or something.

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