Provincial Inquiry public hearings resume in Val-d'Or in August

VAL-D'OR, QC, Aug. 6, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - After a short summer recess, the Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Québec: listening, reconciliation and progress will hold two new weeks of hearings starting August 13, at the Conservatory of music and drama of Val-d'Or.

Calendar of hearings

Week 27, Conservatory of music and drama of Val-d'Or

Monday, August 13:

9:30-11:00 Shaheen Azmi, Acting Director, Policy, Education, Monitoring & Outreach at Ontario Human Rights Commission

11:00-11:30 Jacinthe Poisson, Legal Research Officer, Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics au Québec

11:30-12:30 Lucie Basile, Citizen witness (Police Services)

1:30-3:00 Carolyn Henry, Citizen witness (Police Services) followed by Patrick Parent, Detective Sergeant, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

3:00-4:30 Patrick Parent, Detective Sergeant, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

Tuesday, August 14:

9:30-11:00 Brigitte Dufresne et Robert Lebrun, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

11:00-12:30 Robert Lebrun, Detective Sergeant, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

1:30-3:30 Nellie Bearskin-House, Citizen witness (Health Services)

3:30-4:30 David Pachano, Citizen witness (Justice and Correctional Services) 

Wednesday, August 15:

The Commission will not hold hearings on that day.

Thursday, August 16:

9:30-11:00 Carl Thériault et Ann Ménard, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

11:00-12:30 Carl Thériault et Sylvie Audette, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

1:30-3:00 Brigitte Dufresne et Robert Lebrun, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

3:00-4:30 Robert Lebrun et Yannick Parent-Samuel, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

Friday, August 17

9:30-12:30 Me Pascale Descary, Chief Coroner et Paul-André Perron, Research Advisor, Bureau du Coroner

1:30-2:30 Pauline Bobbish, Chairperson, Regional Committee for Suicide Prevention

2:30-3:30 Kim Basque, Training Coordinator, Association québécoise de prévention du suicide and Françoise Roy, Consultant in suicide prevention and associated competence development at CRISE

3:30-4:30 Witness to be confirmed

Week 28, Conservatory of music and drama of Val-d'Or

Monday, August 20:

9:30-11:00 Me Paul John Murdoch, Citizen witness (Justice Services)

11:00-12:30 Citizen witness, closed proceeding (Youth Protection Services)

1:30-3:00 Édith Cloutier, Executive Director, Val-d'Or Native Friendship Center; Yves Desjardins, Executive Director and Caroline Roy, Deputy Executive Director of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Integrated Health and Social Services Centre (CISSSAT) and Oscar Kistabish, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Val-d'Or Native Friendship Center

3:00-4:30 Citizen witness, closed proceeding (Police Services)

Tuesday, August 21:

9:30-11:00 Jacques Turcot  et Robert Lebrun, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

11:00-12:30 Jacques Turcot  et Robert Lebrun, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

1:30-3:00 Carl Thériault, Detective Sergeant, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

3:00-5:00 Evike Goudreault, Coordinator of Regional Special Needs Services, Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay

Wednesday, August 22:

9:30-11:30 Jesse A. Thistle, PhD Candidate at York University/Researcher in Residence at Canadian Observatory On Homelessness

11:30-12:30 Witness to be confirmed

1:30-3:00 Lizzie Puttayuk, Citizen witness and David Chapman, Director, Open Door

3:00- 4:30 Laurent Dyke, Homelesness intervention agent, Équipe mobile de référence et d'intervention en itinérance (EMRII), Service de police de la ville de Montréal

Thursday, August 23:

9:30-12:30 Witness to be confirmed

1:30-2:30 Citizen witness, closed proceeding (Youth Protection Services)

2:30-3:30 Citizen witness, closed proceeding (Youth Protection Services)

3:30-4:30 Citizen witness, closed proceeding (Youth Protection Services)

Friday, August 24:

9:00-10:30 Me Louis-Philippe Mercier, Lawyer, Legal Aid Office - Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

10:30-11:30 Nicolas Bédard, Executive Director, Centre l'Envolée

11:30-12:30 Gilbert W. Whiteduck, Treatment Coordinator at the Wanaki Centre

1:30-2:30 Gilbert W. Whiteduck, Treatment Coordinator at the Wanaki Centre

2:30-4:00 Jerry Anichinapéo, Citizen witness (Police Services) followed by Gilles Saindon et Robert Lebrun, Detective Sergeants, Service de police de la ville de Montréal

Following this block of hearings, hearings will continue for a two-week period at the Centre des congrès de Québec from September 4 to 14.

Please note that since the calendar of hearings is subject to frequent changes, we invite you to consult the hearings section of our website on a daily basis to get the latest version: www.cerp.gouv.qc.ca.

SOURCE Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics au Québec

For further information: Catherine Bérubé-Leblanc, Communication Advisor, T. 1 844 580-0113, [e-mail], www.cerp.gouv.qc.ca