With so many people volunteering, does it need that money?
Those were volunteers, right? I saw a lot of people with suggestions.
This whole thing is sad but also pointless. Looked into it before, the cops did search but somehow were given the wrong schedule or the garbage trucks were diverted to a different facility. By the time this was realized, it was far too late. I get where the families are coming from but this is pointless and it’s been years now
I wont comment on the efficacy of the search itself—I don’t know enough to meaningfully hold a stance about it—but I think you also have to consider the symbolic meaning of the government funding this search. There’s a long history of federal and provincial governments at best ignoring indigenous people and their struggles, if not actively pursuing policy that harms them.
This search has become a flashpoint for an accumulation of unrest over that history, it can’t be viewed in a vacuum. The sheer poetic horror of murder victims rotting in a landfill makes this example particularly abhorrent, but it’s hardly the only time the police and justice system has failed indigenous women and girls. The government putting a lot of funding into this specific search is bigger than just the outcome of the search itself.
I don’t do symbolism.
The Prairie Green Landfill shut down dumping in the correct zone in 2022. I know that because I was delivering construction garbage to that dump in 2022.
It is not pointless. Your take is tho.
The estimate is that 60,000 tonnes of material will need to be sifted through, an effort that will take up to three years and between $84M and $186M dollars, with absolutely no guarantee of success.
It’s a performative act and waste of resources. I’d much rather see the $90M go towards funding for addictions and mental health supports, and for homeless shelters. Care for the living, the dead no longer care.
They are going there to clean up the toxic chemicals the government dumped there for decades. They are not looking for bodies. If bodies show up, maybe they’ll announce it but this smells very very suspicious.
It’s a private landfill.
Hahahaha! Yeah, only private companies can dump their trash there.
Doiiiiiiii.
Landfill: Private
Contractor: Private
Government: Employs contractors
Along comes the lobbyists for literally the “Waste Management Business”, saying, oh shit there’s bodies in our dump it seems. Gov better finance digging the whole thing up and dispose of it elsewhere, on the governments/taxpayers buck.
Stock goes brrrrrr.
Not saying this is literally what’s going on, just that that exact thing has happened so many times it gets tiring predicting it.
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