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Wow. What a platform!
I'm a PC and I won't dig up a landfill to bring justice to murdered women. VOTE FOR ME!
Conservatives: nods head slowly a very well thought out and compelling argument! Here's my vote!
It doesn't have anything to do about murdered women, digging up possible victims or even justice
It has everything to do with legitimizing hate and normalizing racist ideals ... these aren't ads to let people know what she doesn't want to do ... it's an advertising campaign announcing to every right and far-right leaning moron out there that their ideology is accepted and can be promoted. It's a hate filled campaign to all right wing followers that it's ok to delegitmize minorities and dismiss them because they don't matter.
It's a campaign for hate ... and everyone who allows it to just happen and continue is part of the problem.
Over the summer, Stefanson’s PC government faced a wave of protests in Winnipeg, later spreading across the country and even receiving international attention, over its refusal to search Winnipeg’s landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran — two Indigenous women believed to be victims of an alleged serial killer charged with their murders last year.
Winnipeg’s police chief previously stated that investigators believe their remains are at a local landfill where the body of another woman, believed murdered by the same alleged serial killer, was recovered last summer.
What a piece of shit. But indigenous people aren't people to conservatives, of course.
Once upon a time they said that automation would free up more leisure time for people to enjoy.
The time was freed up, but apparently people decided to use that time to create nonsensical advertisements instead.
She's down by 11 points?
I guess her philosophy is that if you're going to go down you might as well go down in flames.
Canadians are racist AF towards indigenous folk. They fucking hate us, and take every opportunity to make our lives worse.
Especially in Manitoba and Saskatchewan where my god the racism ratchets up to 11.
Canadians are racist AF towards indigenous folk. They fucking hate us, and take every opportunity to make our lives worse.
You fucked up the punctuation there, and your wording is a bit off. Let me fix that for you:
Canadians are racist AF.
There. That pretty much fixes everything.
Like, I get the argument against the project. The chance of finding anything to help bring the killer to justice is roughly zero. The women will still be just as dead, and may not even be found. But still, peace-of-mind is not valueless... but how many millions will we pay for that?
But regardless of the arguments about this: Putting out ads on the subject is absolutely moronic.
Did I read that correctly? What the fuck is going on up there???
It is just a shout out to all the racists and white supremacists that she is their candidate.
So why are the people of Winnipeg not protesting and picketing the landfill?
If those horrible people don’t want to find those bodies then make living in the city uncomfortable until they do.
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
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:
- "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.
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.
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