Canada

The first thing that struck my mind. Maybe they're all about finding the victims, but while they're there, maybe they will also remove some chemical buildup or sanitize the area. I mean they will have to anyway, at some point, but this way they don't have to take political responsibility for it, because it's all a goodwill joint operation between states in order to find those poor missing people that they were responsible for killing in the first place, not the ecological disaster they created there in the first place just to cash the money that would otherwise have gotten spent on disposing properly of chemical waste or whatever.

This is just my bleak cynical look at it, I have no evidence or proof that this is taking place, only life long experience of how it always plays out. I am not from Canada and have not read much about this particular case- just once again I smell that same distinct odor of more shit being hid beneath the surface.

E1: $90M??!?! Holy shit are they building a mine or something?

E2: "We understand the desire to leave no stone unturned," said a statement attributed to Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson and Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations Minister Eileen Clarke.

"However, the search process described in the report is complex, and comes with long-term human health and safety concerns that simply cannot be ignored."

I wonder what those health risks are. I wonder what they really buried down there together with those victims that will take $90M to ~~clean up~~ sift through for evidence. Something is so very fucking sus here.

I don't like particularly this one either:

UN reminds Canada, Manitoba they’re breaching international law by not searching landfill

Hoser you're breaking international law, not cool eh?

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.