🇨🇦 Five minutes, three shots, zero accountability

The cleanest detail here is also the ugliest: less than five minutes after RCMP arrived in Opitsaht, Julian Jones was dead, and the officer who fired multiple shots simply retired, left B.C., and dodged the inquest. Very convenient. A summons means nothing once the system lets you vanish across a provincial line, as reported. That is Canadian accountability in 2026: endless process, non-binding recommendations, and the key witness unavailable.

The state wants two narratives at once: trust the institutions blindly, but accept that institutions cannot compel testimony from the man who pulled the trigger. Jones had a violent record, the officers were responding to a domestic violence call, and none of that changes the central farce. If government monopolizes force, then government agents answer fully for using it. Instead we get legal theatre, bureaucratic escape hatches, and another reminder that public faith in Ottawa-era institutions is for suckers.

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