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Actually I'm making fairly obvious statements of fact. Just what new information do you imagine is going to be produced by this so-called inquiry that hasn't already been discovered by previous inquiries and police statistics? Native women are killed violently in greater numbers than white women? So what? Native men are killed violently in greater numbers than white men too. The reserves are violent. Natives commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime. The prisons are full of natives. This is due to the cultural breakdown on native reserves, to poverty, to hopelessness, to not having any purpose in life on uneconomical reserves without jobs.

"Blacks" made a difference even when they were not "free". Relevance to LGBTQ payouts in Canada ?

Yup, that about sums it up with most Canadians. And don't forget about the wives who appear to only think about going shopping or trying to get some pajama party going.

Yes, but according to the CBC, this comment is racist. Comments like these are why CBC decided to get rid of all comments on native issues. Can't have people arguing that people should be equal and that the reserve system contributes to poverty, it gets in the way of the narrative they wish to peddle.

I do believe the Liberal government is using aboriginals as it does Syrian refugees. Its crass politics. On the other hand the fact is murders of aboriginal women are not investigated because they are aboriginal. They are not investigated because they are aboriginal because they would be traced back to reservations and/or living situations where there is rampant sexual assault, child and wife abuse and other forms of violence brought on by alcohol and drug abuse. The question then becomes why are aboriginals destroying themselves and their families with drug and alcohol abuse, internal violence, suicide. That question has been asked many times. It usually gets perfunctory, superficial responses such as buzz word sounding phrases like "systemtic discrimination". The reality is there is no police manpower to go to rural areas and track down the drunk or drug addict who raped or beat the woman or child to death. The violence is so prevalent and so wide spread, police can't stop it and reservations have become no man lands beyond the reach of the law. The finger will be pointed at police and the federal government but not at the structure of aboriginal councils, the representatives aboriginals pick, and the failure of aboriginals to strongly address their own behaviour patterns and instead of blaming the government, look at their own actions as well. Many aboriginal women leave the reservation and can succumb to prostitution to keep their drinking and crack addictions going. You go to Winnipeg, Regina, Thunderbay and cities or towns with high aboriginal populations and domestic violence, child molestation and suicide, drug and alcohol abuse are rampant and they all factor in. We know that. So? Do you spend hundreds of millions to write up yet anoother knee jerk liberal report that spews the word systemic racism over and over? Solutions? You need an inquiry for solutions? You need an inquiry to tell you there is mass suicide of aboriginal children, that most aboriginals raped never report it? You need a report to say people who feel they have no future and are trapped drink and rape as expressions of alienation? Do you need a report to say most reserves are shut off from mainstream society and therefore breeding grounds for incest, rape, child molestation, suicide? Really? Same old words. Bottom line is, until the reservation system is ended, this will continue.