As the Oct. 3 election day in Manitoba draws closer, the Progressive Conservatives are now actively campaigning on their opposition to searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women police presume are victims of an alleged serial killer.

In a full-page advertisement in the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday, the PCs drew attention to four party campaign planks — and provided a place of prominence to leader Heather Stefanson’s opposition to the landfill search.

“Stand firm,” reads the ad, next to a photo of Stefanson bearing the caption, “For health and safety reasons, the answer on the landfill dig just has to be no.”

The ad was published two days after a televised party leaders’ debate where Stefanson raised the landfill search during the first opportunity she had to ask NDP Leader Wab Kinew a question about his support for a search. A pair of recent polls suggest the NDP is poised to wrest power away from the PCs.

  • @HikingVet
    17•9 months ago

    If this was a white kid or woman, that landfill would have been emptied to find the bodies.

    They aren’t even trying to hide what they are anymore.

  • Rentlar
    9•9 months ago

    The Manitoba conservatives really have no better policy or platform to stand by, do they?

    They’d campaign against tan-coloured suits if there was a news story on a progressive Premier wearing one.

    Also by bigger paycheques I guess they mean everyone should get these instead of direct deposit:

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    As the Oct. 3 election day in Manitoba draws closer, the Progressive Conservatives are now actively campaigning on their opposition to searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women police presume are victims of an alleged serial killer.

    In a full-page advertisement in the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday, the PCs drew attention to four party campaign planks — and provided a place of prominence to leader Heather Stefanson’s opposition to the landfill search.

    she asked, making reference to the maximum cost estimate for a proposed search of the Prairie Green landfill in the rural municipality of Rosser, north of Winnipeg.

    Chief Kyra Wilson of Long Plain First Nation, the home community of both Myran and Harris, described the new PC strategy as extremely hurtful to the families dealing with the loss of their loved ones.

    He said Stefanson and the Progressive Conservative Party may genuinely consider a landfill search with a low prospect of success is not fiscally responsible and also may have polling to suggest a segment of the voting public agrees.

    They might calculate that they have to go all-out negative in the final 10 days and make Wab Kinew and Indigenous issues a lightning rod to generate concern and to motivate their supporters," Thomas said.

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  • Avid Amoeba
    1•9 months ago

    This is such a strange stance to an Ontarian onlooker. Does anyone know anything that makes this make sense?