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: cbc.ca/…/brady-landfill-protest-winnipeg-flag-1.6…

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.

gov.mb.ca/…/summary-budget-and-financial-updates.…
www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/…/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?

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.