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Oppal delivers Missing Women report to BC government
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Marcella Bernardo | Email news tips to Marcella
11/22/2012

BC's Missing Women commissioner has delivered his final report to the provincial government, and the Ministry of Justice has promised to make it public before Christmas.


Wally Oppal spent several months reviewing the events leading up to the 2002 arrest of serial killer Robert Pickton, and why police were not able to stop him sooner.


The report is more than 14-hundred pages long, and will likely be released in mid-December.


Oppal was initially supposed to complete his findings by the end of last year, but he was granted three extensions, after spending 94 days collecting evidence.


The total cost of the inquiry is expected to top nine million dollars.


Oppal was appointed in September of 2010 to investigate why dozens of women disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside betwen January of 1997 and February of 2002.

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  1. ChrisM_18 posted on 11/22/2012 12:37 PM
    Just in time for Chritmas - and in the spirit of the season - a whitwash !
    1. RonF_9 [deleted] posted on 11/22/2012 12:50 PM
      @ChrisM_18 Yep and considering most of the groups involved recognized it as such and withdrew, it is a total whitewash!
    2. DenisL_3 posted on 11/22/2012 03:22 PM
      @ChrisM_18 If you think it was a whitewash then you were not following the inquiry. The police did not do a good job. These special interest groups did not need lawyers unless they were trying to hide something. They in reality need to share some of the blame by not protecting these women. It will not be a whitewash.
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  2. DonS_3209 posted on 11/22/2012 01:07 PM
    Several 'interest groups' withdrew because they couldn't get taxpayer funded lawyers to tell us what we already knew. What a waste of $9M! It won't bring back one murdered woman, give Pickton one more day in jail or help one dseperately in need person.

    These tax funded inquiries accomplish nothing but funding lawyers and judges while giving the media a 'story'. The facts were already out in the trial.
    1. Ron_26 posted on 11/22/2012 04:28 PM
      @DonS_3209 I recall a huge demand for an inquiry. People don't seem to realize it isn't a cheap fix.
    2. AnneH_4 posted on 11/23/2012 12:59 PM
      @DonS_3209 For heavens sakes they did not need lawyers - they only gum up the works. Wally oppal is a very compasionate man. He would gladly have helped these people along with their questions....I think the lawyers should not have been involved in this.

      I sat on a board years ago and everything went well because the 3 of us listened to the person and asked questions etc...whenever a lawyer appeared it made the whole thing a real mess for lack of better words
  3. bctaxpayer posted on 11/22/2012 01:52 PM
    Just wondering if risky clark has offered this case as a retirement for Wally.What a joke.
    1. DenisL_3 posted on 11/22/2012 03:16 PM
      @bctaxpayer She did not appoint Wally. She was working at CKNW at the time of his appointment,.
    2. AnneH_4 posted on 11/23/2012 01:01 PM
      @bctaxpayer If you will recall the taxpayers were screaming to have this enquiry ---- i think it was a waste - I believe the evidence and the actions and actions of police speak for themselves
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  4. SlimP_9860 posted on 11/22/2012 03:44 PM
    How much did it cost to find out that Robert Picton outsmarted the VPD for years?
  5. joes_2868 posted on 11/22/2012 04:17 PM
    Different topic, same scenario. Former NDP premier Glen Clark had all his legal bills paid for by the taxpayers of B.C., in regards to his conflict of interest case,, which the law states is correct, nothing done wrong here.
    Former Social Credit premer, Bill VanderZalm, refused to have the taxpayers pay his legal bills on his conflict of interest case. He paid all his legal bills out of his own pocket because he caused the conflict himself and no one else.
    Why couldn't have Glen Clark paid his own legal bills too?
    Is this the difference between the NDP and the coaliation? Seems the NDP love to spend taxpayer dollars.
    1. Garp posted on 11/23/2012 08:22 AM
      @joes_2868 Why did the Liberals cover Legal Fees for Basi/Virk - Clark was acquitted, they were not. Don't understand your logic
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  6. gordp1205 posted on 11/22/2012 06:31 PM
    Lets hope Oppal once again recommends regionalization of police services in the Lower Mainland. The current mishmash of police, and in fact all services is a joke. It's time the Lower Mainland formed one region, but of course the political will isn't there because a lot of politicians would have to find real work. As in Oppal's multi-million dollar report on policing from 1994, I don't expect much to change. Why, if it did, how could we hire another retired judge in the future to investigate another calamity that will cost us taxpayers millions of dollars!!!!! And there will be another calamity...
  7. HedgeH posted on 11/22/2012 11:47 PM
    Oh my, 9 Million and that`s it!! Wow, we`ll see what we paid for.......absolutely nothing. We all know what went wrong during the trial. Who do they think they are fooling??
  8. jg123456 posted on 11/23/2012 05:58 AM
    It's a bargain. $9 million works out to about $6428.00 per page of this 1400 page report. BC. The best place on earth.
  9. Garp posted on 11/23/2012 08:20 AM
    Apparently everyone here knows what the report contains. Can I get a copy? ChrisM_18, hedgeH, and J123456 - you all seem to have inside knowledge.
    1. AnneH_4 posted on 11/23/2012 01:03 PM
      @Garp Everyone here is jumping the gun....lets wait and see - it will take a while to read 1400 pages and digest them as well
    2. ChrisM_18 posted on 11/23/2012 01:30 PM
      @Garp no inside knowledge - just a very low expectation level from Wally Oppal - he has been in the pocket of the Liberal politicians for far too long
  10. MikeyM_2 posted on 11/24/2012 02:02 PM
    What astonishing things will we learn Wally that we don't already know?? 14K pages is a lot of money??? Is there a condensed version?? ie Have the senior officers of VPD and RCMP Sign on to total cooperation and integration of street units same frequency same tac etc etc etc.... Bet thats not in the report??
  11. joes_2868 posted on 11/24/2012 02:32 PM
    Garp: You would have to ask two high level civil servants for the answer. They are the Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Finance Minister. Note that these two positions do not carry party affiliations.
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