Q & A With Mona Wilson's Brother

Q: I read your sister was called the “dreamer” of your family – why was that?
A: Mona Lee Wilson was the dreamer in our family because of the way she could turn her situation around and share this optimism with us.

Q: What did you think had happened to Mona when she first went missing?
A: We had hoped she checked herself in to a treatment center

Q: When did you learn what happened to her?
A: I found out from a CBC reporter at the time. I was working in Alberta in an oil patch. The lack of cooperation that goes on between our colonized band office and its band members added insult to injury.

Q: How did you feel?
A: I feel really upset in knowing that my sister and others like her aren't being protected by society. I ask myself this, "Who needs the really help here?"

Q: Why do you think she was victimized?
A: Society holds too much anger and pain. Instead of judging one another, let's start to heal ourselves and then others. Every time I see a task force officer today, I see anger and fear...fear is for hiding something and anger stems from the system.

Q: Who do you think is responsible?
A: We are all responsible. I make up society and I am the voice for the unheard. Now that this angry government of yours is falling, there is a change on the horizon. Who will be that change for the new century? So far no one has been.

Q: How often had you been attending trial?
A: I went down there about three times. I don't like going their because of the anger that goes on at courthouses.

Q: What do you think of the media’s portrayal of this story?
A: Not enough coverage or interest in who these children were.