Canada continues to allow born alive aborted babies to die because too many people just don't care

Speaking of Canada's shameful practice of allowing aborted babies to die after being born, I did an ATIP to the RCMP regarding this story, that you may remember:

"On January 23, 2013, three Conservative MPs (Maurice Vellacott – Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Wladyslaw Lizon – Mississauga-Cooksville, and Leon Benoit – Vegreville-Wainwright) wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009. Vellacott wrote a letter of clarification after the initial erroneous media coverage, saying “contrary to what some of the media have been reporting, my colleagues, Leon Benoit and Wladyslaw Lizon, and I did not ask the RCMP to investigate any/all abortions after 19 weeks as possible homicides.?? He explained, “our request to the RCMP was not about the deaths of preborn children, but rather the deaths of children who had already been born alive and who are, therefore, recognized as ‘human beings’ in Canadian law.??"

This is what I asked for:

"I would like to see all documentation (emails, letters, briefing notes, etc.) related to this request to the RCMP; that is, to and from the MPs and the RCMP. Also all documentation to and from the RCMP and any other government organization including the PMO, regarding this MP request for an investigation of possible homicides to the RCMP."

This is what I received back. Other than Maurice Vellacott's own letters, there are only two letters from Commissioner Bob Paulson to Mr. Vellacott. No other documentation of any kind to show that the commissioner did anything with the complaint.

A couple of points to note:

First, the Commissioner never acknowledged Mr. Vellacott's letter because he thought the "RCMP's public acknowledgement...was sufficient to confirm reception". Perhaps an actual response letter to Mr. Vellacott would have been in order? It's called common courtesy.

Second, the Commissioner summarily dismissed Mr. Vellacott's complaint of possible criminal behaviour regarding these born alive abortions. Without any reason, and without any investigation on the very serious allegations. Even when Mr. Vellacott details the pertinent criminal code section, which at the very least should give someone pause:

223 (1) A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not

• (a) it has breathed;

• (b) it has an independent circulation; or

• (c) the navel string is severed.

Marginal note:Killing child

(2) A person commits homicide when he causes injury to a child before or during its birth as a result of which the child dies after becoming a human being.

Third, the second letter from the Commissioner. In this one, his disdain for these allegations is clear:

"The Statistics Canada figures you reference in your correspondence purportedly represent occurrences recorded in regulated medical facilities involving medical practitioners, who must abide by their professional obligations..."

Fourth, the commissioner's using the word purportedly shows that he didn't even bother to reach out to Stats Canada. Otherwise he would have learned that yes indeed, these are late term abortions where a child dies after it is born. It is not purportedly at all. Does he not trust Stats Canada?

Fifth, just because these abortions happen in regulated facilities, does that mean that we don't investigate possible occurrences of criminal behaviours? Think of Kermit Gosnell, the master of botched abortions.

Sixth, "Your assertion that some, any or all of these occurrences constitute a crime requires an untenable contortion of the Criminal Code..." How could it be an untenable contortion if you didn't investigate? The Commissioner's pro-abortion bias just oozes out from his choice of language.

Seventh, it is bizarre that Mr. Paulson was provided with both the data of the possible crimes and the Criminal Code citation, and then evasively indicates that the public is supposed to do his investigation for him.

Of course, we all know there is one set of rules for pro-life people, and one set of rules for pro-abortion people. Commissioner Paulson, on his own, without any investigation whatsoever into these very serious allegations, decided they had no merit.

Some might think this is all water under the bridge now because this happened ten years ago. But it isn't. These helpless little infants continue to be born alive after an abortion, and continue to die. And because of Canada's unrelenting pro-abortion ideology, we will continue to do nothing to stop it.