Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs sorry to see Miller leave Crown-Indigenous Relations portfolio
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Manitoba's largest Indigenous advocacy organization is lamenting the loss of Marc Miller as Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations — but hopes his replacement will keep the process of a landfill search for two First Nations women's remains moving forward.
"It's disappointing, but I'm very happy for him as well," Cathy Merrick, Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs told CBC on Wednesday, following a ceremony to welcome a delegation of supporters from Saskatchewan to a protest camp at Brady Road landfill.
Miller was sworn in as minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship on Wednesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a new cabinet team. He began working as the Crown-Indigenous Relations minister in 2021, after entering cabinet as minister of Indigenous Services in 2019.
Replacing Miller is MP Gary Anandasangaree, who was periodically part of the House of Commons Indigenous and Northern affairs committee. He is one of seven new ministers who were sworn in on Wednesday.
Merrick said First Nations leaders in Manitoba are ready to work with Anandasangaree "to continue the good work put forward by Marc Miller" in the quest to bring home their missing and murdered relatives.
She also issued a challenge to the Toronto-area MP.
"If that man that was placed there as the new minister, if he has a heart, he's going to reach out to us and he's going to help us find our women in these landfills."
Jeremy Skibicki has been charged with first degree-murder in the deaths of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified woman whom community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe or Buffalo Woman. He has also been charged in the death of Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were found last year at the Brady Road landfill.
Harris and Myran's families have been calling for a search of Prairie Green landfill, north of Winnipeg, where it's believed the remains of the two women ended up.
Earlier this month, Miller called the provincial government's decision not to support a search of Prairie Green "heartless," adding that the federal government is "willing to play a role" in a search.
The federal government has yet to announce whether it would fund a search.
"If it was anybody else in these landfills, they'd have the army here, but when it comes to our women, we have to beg different levels of government to make them hear us and to make them understand," Merrick said.
The Manitoba Métis Federation thanked Miller for his work and welcomed Anandasangaree to his new position.
"I have had the pleasure of spending time with Minister Anandasangaree on many occasions in the past and look forward to engaging him on this and other matters of importance to the Red River Métis," David Chartrand, president of the federation said in a release Wednesday.
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