Rex Murphy: Canadians Stand With the James Smith Cree Community in Their Grief

Rex Murphy: Canadians Stand With the James Smith Cree Community in Their Grief
People hug before a press conference by officials at the James Smith Cree Nation on Sept. 8, 2022. Lars Hagberg/AFP via Getty Images
Rex Murphy
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It is far too early to withdraw our consideration from the brutal events which occurred on the James Smith Cree Nation. They were horrible simply in the scale of the slaughter—10 dead and 18 variously injured—and made more horrible in that from what we know it was deliberate and calculated and remorselessly pursued, with the murderers going from house to house, indeed door to door, on their vicious rampage.