More than 90 days of hearings over eight months.
Now BC’s Missing Women inquiry has ended, with the man in charge promising positive results.
“It’s been a challenge. It’s been difficult, but we’ll move forward.”
Commissioner Wally Oppal must review testimony from more than 80 witnesses and 280 exhibits before delivering his final report to the bc government by the end of October.
“The families have said one thing as to how they were treated and then, we have other people who’ve said,’look, we did a great job in policing.’ I’ve made difficult findings of fact before in my other life and it’ll be a challenge, but take it from me, we’ll do it.”
One of the key suggestions repeatedly made is a regional police force… something Oppal recommended when he wrote another report in 1994.