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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
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.
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.
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?
Canada just sent s+r teams to the bottom of the north Atlantic to find 5 rich adventure tourists....
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.
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.
OK. Here's the same situation then:
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.
White chicks like Christine Mustafa and a 57 year old man, got it.
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!
It should be unusual. It's dangerous and it doesn't make sense to risk lives to recover a body. maybe if it was super recent, you had an idea where the body was AND it would be very likely to lead to stopping a mass murderer or something. Certainly not for 'closure' or 'peace of mind'.
But don't pretend you aren't moving the goalposts from 'they would only search if it was a white chick' either.