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RCMP has jurisdiction on First Nations Reserves. In cases where the First Nation has its own police services, the two police services would collaborate. There is no place to hide from the police.
I don't believe it is likely that anyone could successfully hide two lively, growing children on the reserve where everyone knows one another's business. And there seems to be no compelling reason to do so.
Are you thinking the RCMP would engage in an house-to-house search to see if the children were being hidden? I’d highly doubt that considering improving their relationship with indigenous people has been a longstanding goal. As for a band member reporting any of their own members to the RCMP for taking care of children, I’d be very shocked. It’s not as if anyone would be harbouring a criminal on the 10 Most Wanted List, does Canada have one? I don’t know. The unequivocal loyalty amongst band members is quite remarkable within their culture. And they do not all live on-reserve.
As the RCMP have stated, if criminality was not involved in the children’s disappearance then there’s not many alternatives but it doesn’t rule out the possibility of kinship care.
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