Hundreds came out on Monday to a rally at the Manitoba legislature in support of a search of Prairie Green Landfill for two murdered Indigenous women.
“Why does the provincial government get to say they are only going to apply this act when it suits them? Nowhere in this legislation does it say they can refuse if it costs too much money,” Johnston said.
Stefanson, the PC leader, reiterated her party’s approach to the calls for a landfill search when asked by 680 CJOB’s Richard Cloutier at a live radio debate on Monday. Speaking on concerns related to safety and whether or not a search would even be successful, she stated that her government would not go ahead with a search.Story continues below advertisement
But as the government continued with an answer it’s been giving since July, when a landfill search feasibility report was first released, several labour leaders have also thrown their support behind calls for the landfill search. Gina Smoke, an Indigenous liaison with Canada’s largest private-sector union, Unifor, said she doesn’t buy Stefanson’s reason for not searching.
“We have members that do hazardous work across the country. We all know how to be safe when it comes to working with hazardous materials.”Following the rally, a smaller group laid a red dress on the legislature’s statue of Queen Elizabeth.Katherine Dornian / Global News
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