Premier Blaine Higgs is being urged to meet with Wolastoqey chiefs and other Indigenous representatives in the province for 'a nation-to-nation dialogue of respect.'

Global News has been tracking what's been promised by the leaders of the most popular parties in the run-up to the New Brunswick election.

PC leader Blaine Higgs has remained reluctant to call a public inquiry, despite calls from the public and Indigenous leaders.

Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman, was fatally shot by an Edmundston police officer during a wellness check on June 4.

An Edmundston police officer shot and killed 26-year-old Chantel Moore, an Indigenous woman, during a wellness check June 4.

Premier Blaine Higgs won't budge from his belief that a public inquiry should be federally led.

The deaths of Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi will now be subject to separate coroner's inquests.

Currently, the Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) investigates officer-involved incidents involving death, serious injury, sexual assault and domestic violence in Nova Scotia. 

Signed by university professors, lawyers and other New Brunswickers, the letter states that a public inquiry would help to 'restore trust in the justice system.'

On Wednesday, Sen. Kim Pate joined Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May and Fredericton Green MP Jenica Atwin at a news conference on Parliament Hill.