CTV News Montreal

Updated: Wed Feb. 03 2010 6:38:48 PM

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In the eight months since Quebec lawyer Guy Bertrand chose to get involved in the search for Cedrika Provencher, he's fielded hundreds of important leads.

Cedrika went missing from outside her Trois Rivieres home on July 31, 2007, when she was nine years old.

Last year Bertrand offered cash and confidentiality to anyone who came forward with a solid lead on the whereabouts of the young girl.

Unfortunately, the offers have not been enough to bring the girl home, or to bring closure to her family.

Grandfather Henri feels he is being tormented.

"All my family, my wife, my son, my daughter, my granddaughter, are all the in the jail," said Henri.

However Bertrand feels his involvement has been a success because of tips he received that would not have gone to police.

"Success is not if we found Cedrika or not," said Bertrand. "I hate that question."

"I didn't fail. Did a doctor fail when he made all of the possibilities to save a patient?"

Hundreds of tips fail to pan out

342 tips came in during the past eight months, and Bertrand felt 20 were credible enough to pass along to the SQ.

He is now recommending the Quebec government create a centralized missing persons unit with a prosecutor or lawyer at the helm.

"It's another tool we can take to help us find our child," said Bertrand.

Cedrika's family say they had limited contact with Bertrand over the course of his investigation, but hoped the $170,000 reward would yield answers.

But they never intend to give up hope, or stop looking.

"We stop when we know where is Cedrika, we never stop," said Henri.

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Mike
Bertrand is nothing more than a media whore. Whatever he can get involved in that will get his mug on TV.