Brady Road landfill protesters say ‘no’ to evacuation order

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Protesters at the Brady Road landfill say they will not budge even if Winnipeg police show up in full force to remove them.

Members of Camp Morgan, who have been camped out at the landfill just outside Winnipeg for more than seven months, don’t plan on removing the blockade set up on Thursday to protest the Manitoba government’s decision not to search the Prairie Green landfill for remains of two women believed to be murdered then dumped at the site.

The city issued an order to vacate in accordance with the Emergency Management Bylaw late Friday afternoon, later saying they plan to restore full access to the landfill by Monday at noon.

It said the blockade is a violation of city bylaws and provisions under provincial legislation.

The blockade began Thursday following the Manitoba government’s decision against searching the Prairie Green landfill, where the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to be.

Jeremy Skibicki faces first-degree murder charges in their deaths as well as for the death of Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were found last year at the Brady Road landfill.

Diane Bousquet, a protester at the site, said she’s not going anywhere.

“RCMP were created to commit these acts of genocide and to take our children and place them in residential schools. The Winnipeg police are a by-product of that exact act,” she said.

Bousquet said the group doesn’t plan on meeting officers with violence, but if things escalate it will go to show how Indigenous women are viewed by police and government.

“You get up in front of cameras daily and say you guys want truth and reconciliation and this is a prime example that you don’t.”

The recent findings of a feasibility study to search Prairie Green Landfill