MMIW hearings continue despite call for restart – Macleans.ca

Chief commissioner Marion Buller says she and her colleagues intend to go ahead with community hearings in September

WINNIPEG – A national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women is moving forward despite calls from some groups for resignations and a restart.

Chief commissioner Marion Buller said she and her colleagues intend to go ahead with community hearings that are to begin Sept. 25 in Smithers, B.C., but will do so in a way that addresses concerns raised by relatives of the missing and murdered.

“We intend to move forward with our schedule, but we’re going to do it in a better way based on what we’ve heard this week,” Buller said Thursday after a meeting in Winnipeg at which the inquiry’s four commissioners heard from some family members and experts on Indigenous laws.