If the MMIWG inquiry is lacking the required ceremony, languages and medicine, perhaps the inquiry should consider moving to the Kabukiza in Tokyo, Japan. This would be a more fitting venue for the performance of the garish political theatre being offered to us courtesy of the Liberals. Like aboriginal traditional knowledge and art, Kabuki theatre has a centuries old tradition behind it, albeit it is an art form where all the female roles are  interpreted by men...

The intent here is quite obvious:  no one wants to testify under oath or according with any rules . Our government would do well to heed the lessons of the Al Sweady inquiry in the UK. The commissioner in that inquiry was quite right in ruling that many allegations made in the course of the inquiry were "the product of deliberate and calculated lies on the part of those who made them and who then gave evidence to this Inquiry in order to support and perpetuate them." Shocking as it may seem, witnesses do lie...