It's not a new story, and this post has no new information. It's just been bugging me since I read about how the harpercon government is removing funding from this worthy initiative (to give it to the RCMP to set-up their own missing persons database that will not even have a focus on Aboriginal women).
The cruelty of it all. The petty, bullying, sleaziness of it all. The needless malice.
Or is it the case that there's a genuine practical goal that the harpercons hope to achieve? I mean, after all, the harpercons want the "Indian problem" (which is to say, the First Nations themselves) to go away. If Aboriginal women are getting "disappeared" that's all to the good as far as a harpercon piece of filth sees it. The "Sisters in Spirit" database brings all sorts of uncomfortable attention to this policy of malign neglect.
Maybe Tom Flanagan can explain why we need to fold this database dedicated to this very vulnerable demographic into a general database controlled by the same institution (the RCMP) that has done such a piss-poor job on this file (too busy killing people at airports and police-stations I guess), and to have that institution waste three years reinventing the wheel.
I doubt he could though. The unsavoury nature of this funding cut is undeniable. Just one more example of Canada's downward moral trajectory. Under the Liberals, First Nations peoples suffered and died in numerous ways, but somewhere, somehow, some activists got funding to build this database. Under the harpercons, counting the missing and the dead is impermissable, because it's inconvenient.
Assholes.
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