Search the landfill events planned country-wide for Sept. 18
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Search the Landfill day of action is planned for Monday, Sept. 18 with events being held in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, Prince George and North Battleford.
Indigenous people and allies across Canada are planning to gather on Monday, Sept. 18 for #SearchTheLandfill day of action to show solidarity with the families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran whose bodies are believed to be in a Winnipeg landfill the province refuses to search.
“It’s overwhelming, it feels like the government doesn’t care at all and it shows,” said MMIW survivor Jody-Leigh Pacey. “(Their behaviour) is showing that you can go and dump a Native woman’s body because the government is not going to search.”
“They’re showing us we don’t matter and it’s just so sad.”
Monday’s action is planned for Sept. 18, the day the House of Commons returns from summer holidays.
Events are being held across the country with major ones planned for Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Edmonton and others in Vancouver, Prince George and North Battleford.
Manitoba Conservative premier, Heather Stefanson, has continued to deny search efforts at the landfill, citing cost, safety risks and no guaranteed success despite the union representing landfill workers saying there’s no reason the search can’t be done if proper precautions are taken.
And landfills have been searched before. In 2021, the remains of Nathaniel Brettell were found in an Ontario landfill after a several-month long search.
The province is in the midst of a provincial election and the landfill is a major campaign point — the Liberals say they’d pay half the cost of a $184 million search if elected while NDP promise they’ll do what Stefanson won’t, which is “try.”
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