The federal and Manitoba governments are each contributing $20 million to aid in the search for the landfill for the bodies of two murdered Indigenous women.
The funds will be used to search the privately owned Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, where it is believed that the bodies of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran can be found.
Jeremy Skibicki is accused of first-degree murder in the killings of Harris, Myran and two other women.
The other two are Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were discovered in a different landfill, and an unidentified woman Indigenous leaders have named Buffalo Woman.
The body of Buffalo Woman has not been located.
An Indigenous-led committee commissioned two reports on the feasibility of a search, which has been estimated to cost $90 million if completed within a year.
