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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The estimate is that 60,000 tonnes of material will need to be sifted through, an effort that will take up to three years and between $84M and $186M dollars, with absolutely no guarantee of success.

It's a performative act and waste of resources. I'd much rather see the $90M go towards funding for addictions and mental health supports, and for homeless shelters. Care for the living, the dead no longer care.

[–] girlfreddy 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is caring for the living because the women's families and friends matter too.

And the fact is the previous provincial Conservative gov't decided not to do this earlier when the costs wouldn't have been so steep.

Blame the assholes who created the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Every almost every season there are a few fishermen who get lost at sea. The CG and DFO will search for a few days then call off the search. It's tragic, but it's the way it is.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/bay-of-fundy-scallop-fishermen-search-chief-william-saulis-1.5843267

Search was suspended after 36 hours. Only one body was found.

[–] Auli 1 points 10 months ago

People go missing all the time it sucks. And I know the family wants closure or whatever but at least they know what happened to their missing. Lots of people are left never knowing.

[–] fuckyou 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are going there to clean up the toxic chemicals the government dumped there for decades. They are not looking for bodies. If bodies show up, maybe they'll announce it but this smells very very suspicious.

[–] girlfreddy 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] fuckyou 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hahahaha! Yeah, only private companies can dump their trash there.

Doiiiiiiii.

Landfill: Private

Contractor: Private

Government: Employs contractors

Along comes the lobbyists for literally the "Waste Management Business", saying, oh shit there's bodies in our dump it seems. Gov better finance digging the whole thing up and dispose of it elsewhere, on the governments/taxpayers buck.

Stock goes brrrrrr.

Not saying this is literally what's going on, just that that exact thing has happened so many times it gets tiring predicting it.