On Reading The National Inquiry Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The National Inquiry Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual peopleReactions to Reclaiming Power and Place, the title of the National Inquiry Report, have ranged from angry sarcasm to pious platitudes. I thought there would be lots of room in the middle ground for a reasoned, dispassionate if sympathetic reading. I had heard numerous declarations that all Canadians should read and educate themselves from this report. I, therefore, gave myself the task of reading the 1200-page report, the 300-page Quebec supplement, and the 50-page executive summary.
When I was done, my immediate reaction tended toward angry sarcasm. I had to remind myself of the experience of working on a large research project (though nothing in the order of magnitude of the National Inquiry) where the end result was a hodgepodge which failed to satisfy anyone's vision of what the project was meant …
When I was done, my immediate reaction tended toward angry sarcasm. I had to remind myself of the experience of working on a large research project (though nothing in the order of magnitude of the National Inquiry) where the end result was a hodgepodge which failed to satisfy anyone's vision of what the project was meant …