Chief Commissioner Marion Buller says the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) will ask the federal government for an extension of its two-year mandate. That's not fair to families and survivors; they need closure," Buller said as five days of hearings wrapped in Mani-Utenam, Que., an Innu community near Sept-Îles, 650 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. MMIWG Commissioner Michelle Audette, whose home community is Mali-Utenam, Que., says the hearing schedule has been so tight, she worries inquiry staff will burn out. Commissioner Qajaq Robinson said common threads have emerged across the country when it comes to the deep-rooted social problems present in Canada's Indigenous communities. She told inquiry commissioners on the last day of hearings in Mani-Utenam, Que., she wants the case to remain open.

Source: CBC News December 01, 2017 22:52 UTC