One of the two leading parties in this province spent the final days of the election campaigning against against a landfill search. The other leading party tiptoed around Indigenous concerns.
The PCs' Heather Stefanson and NDP Leader Wab Kinew took very different tacks on the needs of Indigenous voters during this campaign.
There are several forms of risk at play, the first being obvious: turning off socially progressive conservatives — in a province where red Tories remain a significant portion of the electorate — as part of an effort to fire up the most conservative members of their base. "People that feel that this party is veering too much to the right and going into those dog-whistle areas, like parental rights, and the landfill are associating Wab Kinew with crime."
While Kinew promised early on to engage in some form of good-faith landfill effort, the NDP largely avoided raising the Prairie Green search until Stefanson and the PCs decided to campaign on their stance. Leaders of Manitoba's three main political parties faced off at a party leaders' debate at CBC Manitoba on Sept. 21."Race is part of the landscape when it comes to safety in Manitoba. Indigenous people come up in our conversations about crime in this province," Kinew said at the time.
"Indigenous issues are a lightning rod and certainly you see the conservatives trying to make it even more of a lightning rod. So I think there's a sensitivity around that, whether you want to call it reconciliation fatigue, whether you want to call it our ability to not fully confront our colonialist past and the genocide that has impacted Indigenous peoples and continues to impact in this country," she said.
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