Marion Buller, the chief commissioner of the troubled inquiry, made the comments while speaking at a Senate committee about the committee’s work Wednesday evening in Ottawa. OTTAWA—The head of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada says government bureaucracy is smothering the inquiry’s ability to do its work on time. The inquiry has held just one hearing with family members to date, and has nine scheduled for the fall starting in Smithers, B.C. It is to provide an interim report by Nov. 1 and its final report no later than Dec. 31, 2018. The office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett didn’t reply when asked for a response to Buller’s comments.

Source: thestar September 21, 2017 02:15 UTC