This is no different than what happened with the 'Truth and Reconciliation   
   Inquiry'.  When any inquiry is run by the very people who would benefit,   
   you're going to see these kinds of mutilated 'facts' and 'errors'.   
      
   And ultimately, the taxpayer is going to pay for the misrepresentations.   
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   CBC News · Posted: Sep 03, 2019   
      
   MMIWG final report quietly altered after CBC inquired about errors   
      
   Report contained errors that were fixed online, but allowed to remain on the   
   official record   
      
      
   The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of   
   Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and girls by misquoting a   
   figure from Statistics Canada — and later quietly altered the report online   
   after CBC News raised    
   questions.   
      
   The error, which was confirmed to CBC News by the inquiry's director of   
   research, occurred when the commission left out a word that had appeared in   
   the original Statistics Canada figure.   
      
   The statement "Indigenous women and girls now make up almost 25 per cent of   
   homicide victims" should have referred to their percentage share of female   
   homicide victims — which is a smaller number of people.   
      
   It's one of a number of statistics in the inquiry report on missing and   
   murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) that appear to conflict with   
   numbers collected by the government of Canada, or with other numbers in the   
   same report.   
      
   In some cases, the inquiry report's footnotes cite government reports that do   
   not support the footnoted statements.   
      
   And the error was subsequently corrected in the online version of the report,   
   without giving public notification.   
      
   The errors are ones of degree and ultimately don't change one of the main   
   findings of the inquiry — that Indigenous women and girls suffer higher   
   rates of violence and homicide than non-Indigenous women and girls.   
      
   "We have to look back at the bigger picture of the whole issue," said former   
   Manitoba grand chief Sheila North, who has been critical of the inquiry, when   
   CBC first discovered the error. "While there have been missteps, I think that   
   it does still speak    
   to the realities of what Indigenous women and girls face in this country."   
      
      
   Report quietly altered   
      
   The inquiry, which heard testimony from hundreds of witnesses and families of   
   missing women and made international headlines when it accused Canada of   
   genocide, presented its report to the public on June 3.   
      
   CBC News first contacted the inquiry commission on June 6 to ask about   
   discrepancies in figures and statistics. In the course of several   
   communications with the commission over the subsequent nine days, it   
   acknowledged one error while denying others.   
      
   When asked whether the commission would make corrections and acknowledge the   
   errors, its director of communications Catherine Kloczkowski did not respond   
   or reply to any further messages.   
      
   One week after that final communication, the commission changed the hyperlink   
   on its website without acknowledging the change. Instead of directing readers   
   to the original report, the link now leads to a new website where there is a   
   modified version of    
   the report — different from the one printed by Publications Canada. (Note:   
   the security certificates for these government websites seem to have expired,   
   meaning they may be initially blocked for some users by their web browsers.)   
      
   The corrected report appeared online on June 22, 19 days after the original   
   report was presented to the public. The old, uncorrected report continued to   
   exist on a different website, but no longer had a live link to it.   
      
   No erratum or acknowledgement of changes accompanies the new report. There was   
   no public notification of the fact that there are now two versions of the   
   final report in circulation — nor has there been any attempt to reprint the   
   original copies.   
      
   Official record allowed to remain   
      
   The commission also has not replaced the original, erroneous report filed with   
   Library and Archives Canada. So the government's official record of the   
   commission's findings still contains the errors and contradictions discovered   
   by CBC News.   
      
   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received his copy of the report on June 3 at a   
   ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec, and committed the government to acting on its   
   findings. CBC News asked the Prime Minister's Office if the commission had   
   ever attempted to replace    
   the original copy, or inform the PMO of the revisions it had made. A spokesman   
   said "all I can say for the PMO is that the PM was presented a copy at the   
   June 3 event."   
      
   Moreover, the version of the report being offered to the public through Amazon   
   is still the original, uncorrected version.   
      
   On Aug. 27, CBC News asked MMIW Commissioner Michele Audette if there had been   
   any revision of the numbers, or any consideration given to publication of   
   errata. She did not respond.   
      
   more:   
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/missing-murdered-indigenous-wom   
   n-inquiry-statistics-1.5176756   
      
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