More speakers to be heard during missing women inquiry
Posted March 28, 2011 3:06 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Changes are being made to the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, headed by former attorney general Wally Oppal. The proceedings will be a combination of hearings and a study commission, allowing for more speakers, fewer restrictions and a less formal setting.
People who want to testify won’t need a lawyer, and they will also be free to voice their opinions on women who vanished along BC’s Highway of Tears, as well as the Downtown Eastside.
Ernie Crey, whose sister Dawn’s DNA was found on Robert Pickton’s farm in 2004, says he’s looking forward to the commission.
“Now, I’m just eager to get the inquiry get underway because so many of use fought for so long to get a public inquiry in the first instance,” he explains.
The commission will soon let people know how to participate. Commissioner Oppal still expects to have his report finished by the end of December.
