It could take between 12 and 36 months to search for the remains of the two missing women, and would likely cost between $84-million and $184-million, study says
It will take at least a year and may cost tens of millions of dollars to search for the remains of two First Nations women believed to be buried in a Winnipeg landfill, but it must be done, Indigenous leaders said Friday after the release of a long-awaited feasibility study into the potential recovery effort.across Canada that this government condones the despairing act of disposing of First Nations women in landfills,” Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Cathy Merrick said at a news conference Friday.
Ms. Harris, 39, and Ms. Myran, 24, who are both members of Long Plain First Nation, are believed to have been the victims of accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.Rebecca ContoisMr. Skibicki was arrested in May, 2022, after Ms. Contois’s partial remains were found in a garbage bin outside an apartment building. Additional remains were then recovered from a local landfill known as the Brady Road landfill.
According to an executive summary of the 55-page report provided by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, a search of the landfill was deemed feasible but not without “considerable risks,” because of toxic chemicals and asbestos. “We always knew from day one that it was feasible and that’s why we are here today – to continue sharing that message to the greater community, that it is feasible to look for our Indigenous women when they go missing or they are murdered,” Long Plain Chief Kyra Wilson said Friday.
Aissa Diop, a spokesperson for Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller, said he has received the final report and is reviewing it.
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