Today Commission Counsel Art Vertleib, Q.C. advised us that the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry will not be sitting this Thursday, November 10 or at all next week.  The Commission will resume hearings on November 21, 2011 and will apparently sit for only another eight days this year, until December 1, 2011, before adjourning until some time in January.

Although the Terms of Reference say that this public nquiry has been convened to inquire into VPD and RCMP investigations conducted over a five year period, and although we are now in the fifth week of Commission hearings, we have yet to hear any testimony from a single police investigator, and as far as we know, none are on the horizon.

This raises all sorts of questions…