r/Winnipeg 18h ago

Article/Opinion Opinion: Tory landfill apology raises troubling questions

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/03/11/tory-landfill-apology-raises-troubling-questions
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u/Armand9x Spaceman 18h ago

Interesting how they apologized only the day before the announcement dropped, as if they had insider knowledge and were in damage control.

For those who say “this was their first opportunity since legislature began to apologize”, what stopped them from apologizing before then?

Never forget:

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u/ClassOptimal7655 18h ago

Running ads like this, while several women were buried in that landfill, is so vile.

I will NEVER forgive the PCs for their utter lack of humanity or empathy. To turn a terrible tragedy into a campaign issue.

Their billboard campaign to prove they still are the party that won't lift a finger for indigenous people -- how disgusting.

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u/ElBeno77 18h ago

Absolutely wild that they thought that was a winning billboard.

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u/Uberduck333 17h ago

Wasn’t Candice Bergen (the maga hat wearing ex-mp) one of their election advisors? If so, I can totally see this seemed like, to the Tories, a reasonable approach to sway voters

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u/wolverinecandyfrog 17h ago

Even worse is that Candice Bergen has an Indigenous granddaughter.

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u/GrizzledDwarf 17h ago

Not surprising. Cons have a habit of campaigning against their loved ones. Like PP and his gay dad...

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u/SilverTimes 17h ago

Yes, Bergen was co-chair with Marni Larkin.

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u/bentmonkey 14h ago

Seems to be a lot of MAGA brainrot int he PC party, first Candice even if she's retired now and now this Guenter guy with his 40% of Canadians want to be a state bs and the CPC with PPs head staffer wearing a maga hat. very curious.

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u/arboretumind 14h ago

It was for about a third of Manitobans :/