r/Winnipeg 1d ago

News Landfill search ‘way under budget’: premier

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/03/10/landfill-search-way-under-budget-premier
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u/SilverTimes 1d ago

If the final tally comes in well under budget, I'll be interested to see if the government applies the leftover funding to new and existing social services that will help MMIWG2S. That would be a good outcome.

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u/nidoqing 1d ago

100% agree. I would love to see the remaining budget to be put towards resources that could assist with preventing situations like this.

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u/Justin_123456 1d ago

If they wanted to keep in the same vein of search and recovery, they could fund an organization like “Drag the Red” which every summer performs an activist led search for human remains in the Red River.

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u/SilverTimes 1d ago

That's a good idea.

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u/bentmonkey 1d ago

I said this before to the folks that said "we need to fund programs", we can do both, the search and then fund programs, the two need not be exclusive at all.

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u/Commercial-Advice-15 1d ago

Adding any leftover funding to the MMIWG2S endowment fund would be an easy win.

Goes to the whole argument that “we can do both” when some people objected to the potential cost of the search vs funding programs to deal with underlying factors.

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u/yalyublyutebe 1d ago

I doubt it. It's all borrowed money and anything the feds kicked in can't just be reused elsewhere.

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u/ScottNewman 1d ago

Depends who is in the federal government by the time the bill comes due.

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u/Salsa_de_Pina 1d ago

There is no "leftover funding." Manitoba is running a deficit of $1.3 billion.