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grteM to CanadaPolitics · 2 years ago

Heather Stefanson Launches Ads Declaring She Will Never Search Landfill For Remains of Murdered Women

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Manitoba PC leader Heather Stefanson is running partisan ads politicizing search for Indigenous women believed murdered by a serial killer
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    So why are the people of Winnipeg not protesting and picketing the landfill?

    Some people are: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brady-landfill-protest-winnipeg-flag-1.6908856

    As for those that aren’t protesting:
    The criminal lawyers in I know from Winnipeg believe that justice will be served and Skibicki will be convicted of the murders of these women, even without the bodies being found. So spending a quarter of the provincial justice budget on one case that is already likely to be won (or roughly 30 times the amount spent on an average homicide, or 6 times the amount the budgeted for “Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations” for the whole year), probably just isn’t going to happen. I know that it’s brutal to say, but it’s just not going to happen.

    But there is a huge difference between looking at the costs and understanding that it won’t happen, and spending money advertising how proud you are that you’re not going to do it.

    https://www.gov.mb.ca/budget2022/summary-budget-and-financial-updates.html
    https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2015-r022/index-en.aspx

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      If it were the bodies of affluent and or white people there would never have been a question: the bodies would be recovered.

      This is just more anti-indigenous racism from Canada.

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        That’s the part that confuses me in these “it’s too expensive”-style responses. We have PLENTY of evidence that NO COST IS SPARED in recovering bodies of white folk (as long as they’re not sex workers, I mean). But because these are natives, meh. It’s too expensive.

        I get more ashamed of my passport with each passing year.

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          I don’t know is there a case where they have searched a landfill for people who are not native? Like having no idea where the body is and just blindly searching like this is?

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            Canada just sent s+r teams to the bottom of the north Atlantic to find 5 rich adventure tourists…

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            A landfill specifically I can’t think of off-hand (though I don’t doubt they exist), but I know for a fact (because I participated in them) that huge searches of large areas of rough wilderness have been searched for white chicks gone missing and presumed dead.

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              Those are rescue operations. In those cases even if they are ‘presumed dead’ there is a chance of recovery.

              Searching the landfill for long dead bodies is not a rescue operation. These are very different scenarios.

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                OK. Here’s the same situation then:

                • “Beginning Monday and for up to nine weeks, dozens of Valley officers will be searching there for Christine Mustafa’s remains.”
                • “After months of searching at a massive garbage dump, Toronto police have located the body of a 57-year-old man who they believe was murdered this past winter.”
                • “Officers had been searching the Coffin Bute Landfill in Corvallis since Friday as part of a homicide investigation.”
                • “For the second time in less than 18 months, authorities from New York combed a landfill in Somerset County Monday, looking for the body of a slain woman whose alleged killer abandoned her little girl on a Queens street.”
                • “New landfill search for woman’s body likely after fugitive’s capture, confession”
                • “Goggles, protective suits: Cops search Michigan landfill for teen’s body”

                This was a trivial Google search to find. It turns out searching landfills for homicide victims is pretty normal. Except if you’re a Canadian native.

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                  White chicks like Christine Mustafa and a 57 year old man, got it.

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                    Oh for fuck’s sake!

                    I’m showing that searching landfills isn’t unusual you utter fucking cretin! Grow the fuck up and just admit you were WRONG on whether or not this was a common thing or not, you dimwitted twatwaffle!

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