Native Men were barred from the hearings. Men were not to testify or have any input into how the inquiry was run. It was made clear, the inquiry was not to discover responsibility for who, why or how native women were killed or went missing, or to lay criminal charges on anyone or group. It is as much a grandiose failure of Canada's feminist culture as it is of native. Failure was the only possible outcome.  White people had nothing to do with it but will get the blame.