Inquiry to extend beyond July

Cornwall Standard Freeholder

31 March 2008

Cornwall (Staff)

Testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry will continue at least until this fall, Comm. Normand Glaude announced today.

The evidentiary portion of the inquiry, which is examining how certain institutions in the Cornwall area responded to historical abuse allegations, had been scheduled to call its final witness in July.

Glaude said Monday there had been a number of "unexpected occurrences" over the past few months, including the refusal to testify by former Cornwall police officer Perry Dunlop, which slowed down proceedings.

He said the challenges parties made against the testimony of previous witnesses – which were taken to the divisional court and then the Ontario Court of Appeal – also caused delays, as did the heavy snowfall this winter, resulting in cancellations.

To help speed up the process, Glaude said the inquiry would try to have two witnesses testify on the same day when possible.

He also urged the parties to avoid asking questions that had already been asked by commission counsel or other lawyers.

"With these measures, I am confident that an additional two to three months beyond July will bring us to the completion of the Phase 1 hearings," Glaude said.

Comment posted on Freeholder website 

Let's focus on public inquiry's positive outcomes?

From: david witzel (xxxxxxx)
Sent: March 31, 2008 5:18:00 PM
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To the Editor:

Well, I see we have a letter from our fearless leader(?) Paul Scott who has basically said diddley and please let me explain. About a year ago, Paul Scott came to me needing to know where to get help for the Adults who were abused as children and I gave him the contact info for a man by the name of JIM HALL (1-416-281-7301 Ext. 4160 and FAX# is 1-416-281-7465 for those who wish to contact Jim) who does work regarding the abuse of children and those adults who survived sexual abuse as children and it was so important, I even went to extent of talking with both Scott and Jim and arranged for Scott to contact Jim. Jim has written a book and works within the Scarboro Rouge Valley Health System in the Shonicker building dealing with children, parents, kids who have been abused AND Adult Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse. He also travels all around Ontario especially up into the Arctic Circle (where he was 2 weeks ago) helping the Aboriginals and their elders and abused people set up groups and guides them as to how to set it up and how to both run and deal with this situation. He's an expert who has many groups, government groups that come to him for both his help and advice. To make it short, PAUL SCOTT who thinks he knows a lot about or professes to know a lot about Child Abuse and how to deal with it, forgot or for whatever reason couldn't even be bothered to contact Jim until almost a year later when I got on his case about his neglect and Jim is even known within the Men's Project but not good enough for good old Scott and his CCR.

You've just printed his babbling letter regarding the Inquiry and if I may, I will quote him and comment on it:

"The main message from some of our political and opinion leaders is that the inquiry is too slow and costs too much. There is not very much being said about institutional response to allegations of abuse of our children and young people (phase 1 of the inquiry), and about healing and reconciliation (phase 2 of the inquiry). Let's be honest here, we know that inquiries generally are slow and cost a lot of money. That observation is not new, so why focus on only that?"

He's right when he says that there isn't much being said about institutional response to ALLEGATIONS of abuse of our children and young people but, isn't the Inquiry more about the sexual abuse of children who are now ADULTS and just where are any charges and people are still babbling about "allegations". You all know it happened and even after this length of time those abused children who are now Adult Survivors of Abuse have waited, we still have everybody pointing fingers at each other and not a damn thing is being done to help these survivors (unless it's digging graves to bury those that just can't take it any more!) So basically "Jack S***" has been done bring these abusers to court and then straight to jail and now we have Phase 2 which is about "healing and reconciliation" and so we have this wonderfull thing called "Visioning Day" to help the abused. What a joke and a crock of you know what and that has been born out by the numbers of people(VICTIMS) who DIDN'T TURN OUT and the rest of the local yokels sat around wondering why nobody showed or hardly nobody showed. By the way, JUST HOW MANY VICTIMS DID SHOW UP FOR THE "VISIONING DAY" Paul or anybody?

And good old Scott goes on about people maligning the Inquiry and yet that very same Paul Scott maligned or denied the effectiveness of the Inquiry to me so what people is he talking about, he's complained about many things that have gone on in the Inquiry himself, sorta like the pot calling the kettle non-white.

Lets face it, this Inquiry is an ABSOLUTE FAILURE and as far as I'm concerned, these so-called do-gooders are more concerned about the reputation of Cornhole than they are about the survivors of the abuse as THAT'S ALL I've heard about. And when you have a bunch of citizens who want to be directly involved with something they know nothing (medically) about, then the end result is going to be a whole bunch more of these silly-assed "Visioning Day", more BS from the Inquiry, citizens of Cornhole feeling good about themselves for doing something (Useless), and the now getting older and older VICTIMS from decades ago either dying, committing suicide or wishing they had done one or the other rather than dying a slow death from a million cuts from both the community AND the Inquiry. I don't think most of Cornhole or anyone connected with this farce really gives a damn about any of the victims more than they care about their so-called "precious" reputation. It's in tatters and always will be and you only have yourselves, the Inquiry and the likes of the CCR and the Scotts of the world to thank. Just how important do they think they are or is that part of the method to madness, they AREN'T important and this is just one way to create their own importance.

And I won't even begin to talk about Prescott and surrounding areas, what is this thing about your area, is it all the inbreeding or just what is it?

Thanks for listening and this is a rebuttal of that letter by Paul Scott and one would hope that oppossing views such as this are both posted and listed, sincerely David Witzel

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