The missing kids can wait – the land and cultural acknowledgements were the RCMP’s priority.
Most agree, the most important thing to the Nova Scotia RCMP should have been the search and whereabouts of six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack Sullivan.
But a shocked country has come to the conclusion that woke culture seems to have trumped all, as evident in the police news conference in Pictou County on Wednesday.
With time being of the essence when it comes to missing children, the media officer spent 40 seconds at the top of her briefing doing land and culture acknowledgements in both official languages.
“I acknowledge we are in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional and unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaw people,” RCMP Cpl. Carlie McCann said, reading aloud a land acknowledgment. “I also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies and contributions have enriched that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia for 400 years.”
These siblings were reported missing last Thursday, May 2, from their family’s rural trailer home about 20 minutes from New Glasgow. The children are reported to not have been in school for the week prior to a 911 call from their mother and stepfather alerting police they had vanished.
The RCMP press conference was to announce the larger search was coming to an end in favour of a smaller, more focused one.
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The RCMP is taking the media’s calls but so far has not addressed this. Police have also not indicated there is any “Mi’kma’ki” or “African Nova Scotian” element in this case. If there wasn’t an investigative reason for the RCMP to make those mentions, there will have to be a discussion to ensure nothing like that happens again.
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One important factor on land acknowledgements, or acknowledgements of a specific community, is there are no federal laws that instruct police, politicians or any other group that they must be done.
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But there are places like the City of Toronto, which in its policy says “providing a land acknowledgement at the beginning of an event or meeting gives time for reflection and demonstrates recognition of Indigenous lands, treaties and peoples. It involves thinking about what happened in the past and what changes can be made going forward in order to further the reconciliation process.”
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