Ottawa has faced calls to fund a search of the landfill since December, when police revealed that remains of two First Nation women are believed to be buried there
“We’re continuing to review the report and co-ordinate with the Manitoba government,” Crown Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said in an interview this week.
Police have alleged that the women, Morgan Harris, 39, and Marcedes Myran, 24, were both murdered by accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. The revelation that investigators had left the women’s remains in the landfill for months, even as their families continued to search for them,. In response to pressure from the families and their communities, the landfill paused operations, and a working group was assembled to study the feasibility of searching for the bodies.
But AMC Grand Chief Cathy Merrick cautioned against putting a price tag on the lives of Indigenous women. She told a news conference at the time that, if the government does not support a search, this would “demonstrate to allacross Canada that this government condones the despairing act of disposing of First Nations women in landfills.”
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