It's 10 years to the day since the disappearance of young Quebec girl Cedrika Provencher, whose remains were finally found in December 2015.
Various events are planned in her hometown of Trois-Rivieres on Monday to mark the anniversary of her disappearance.
One of them was an announcement by Cedrika's grandfather about the creation of a new non-profit research centre aimed at preventing child abduction.
Henri Provencher told a news conference on Monday the centre will foster innovation and new tools to prevent child kidnappings.
According to RCMP statistics, abductions by strangers remain quite rare.
And the Mounties say 59 per cent of disappearances involving children in 2016 were solved within the first 24 hours, with the figure climbing to 92 per cent within a week.
Cedrika was last seen in Trois-Rivieres in the early evening of July 31, 2007. The girl, then 9 years old, has been asking people in the neighborhood if they had seen a lost dog.
More than eight years later, on Dec. 11, 2015, a hunter came across a set of human remains in a wooded area in the community of St. Maurice, just outside Trois-Rivieres. They were later found to be Cedrika's.
On Sunday, on the eve of the anniversary, Cedrika's father, Martin Provencher, went to the media to urge Jonathan Bettez — a man arrested in 2016 on child pornography charges and who was once considered the prime suspect in her disappearance — to collaborate with police in their ongoing investigation.
Provencher urged Bettez to undergo a polygraph test, which Bettez has so far refused to submit to.
-CJAD 800's Richard Deschamps contributed to this report.