It may seem over the top to denounce Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett as accessories to death. But let's wake them up! The PM lives by the $500 gourmet dinner on the prime-ministerial airplane, daily photo-ops and acceptance of the ritual headdress from the Tsuut'ina First Nation near Calgary. But like President Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, what's Trudeau been doing for Aboriginals to justify the honour? Young people are dying while Trudeau and Bennett shilly-shally. I name them, therefore, as accessories responsible, by implication even criminally, for the recent death by suicide of three girls, aged between 12 and 14, of the Lac La Ronge First Nation in northeast Saskatchewan. First off, there's the principle of command responsibility, normally applicable for war crimes but also for anyone holding a senior position of personal or corporate trust. Inherent in the Canadian government's relationship with Aboriginal peoples there's still a paternal responsibility. Trudeau more than any previous Prime Minister has gone out of his way to affirm the government's duty of care, and he's in command.

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