"Our family, even in our darkest hour, agrees wholeheartedly with Canada's policy of not paying ransom," the Hall family said in the statement. Relatives of a Canadian man killed by militants in the Philippines say they agree with Canada's stance on not paying ransom for hostages. Robert Hall had been held hostage by Abu Sayyaf since September 2015 and was killed this week after a deadline for a ransom payment passed. The family says it will remember Hall as a self-made man who worked his entire life to raise his family above the hardships of his own youth. The whereabouts of two others taken around the same time, a Norwegian man and a woman from the Philippines, are unknown.

Source: CBC News June 15, 2016 06:45 UTC