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.
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.
This same ad showed up in my mail yesterday - it wasn’t just in the paper.
So the “law & order” party are actively impeding a police investigation?
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
This is such a strange stance to an Ontarian onlooker. Does anyone know anything that makes this make sense?