Thoughts, Dr. :
"media tails" wagging Parliamentary "dogs."  Not a new phenomenon, but less frequent than the traditional role of calling politicos to account. Timing is, as they say, everything.  Trudeau's had a rough couple of months--one negative allegation/misstep/questionable decision after another. I think he jumped on this story to look the humanistic crusader ((immediately putting foot in mouth--again) before doing a quick hand-off to Public Safety Minister, who was the more appropriate point-man. 

Could be argued it was the G&M who jumped on "Murdered and Missing" over a year and a half ago. But when it did, it did it in fine form, reporting that "Several chiefs said the minister [of Aboriginal Affairs] should be fired for blaming aboriginal men for the tragedy," when the Minister merely quoted RCMP stats that indicated 70% of violence to women was perpetrated by FN men. Yikes! So, government surely wanted to look good on THIS file.