MMIWG2S licence plates among MPI’s top sellers
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This article was published 27/12/2024 (265 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG — Vehicle owners continue to purchase specialty licence plates from Manitoba Public Insurance, aligning themselves with organizations and causes they believe in.
Plates supporting the families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and two-spirited people, featuring symbols of either a red dress or red hand print, were one of the top sellers during the past year.
MPI said 4,902 sets of the MMIWG2S plates, which have been available only since last December, were sold in 2024.
Licence plates supporting the families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and two-spirited people were one of the top sellers during the past year, Manitoba Public Insurance reports. (Mikaela MacKenzie/Winnipeg Free Press)
That was second only to 6,969 sets of Winnipeg Jets Heritage plates, as of Dec. 22.
“It shows that Manitobans care about this (MMIWG2S) issue,” said provincial Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith, who introduced the bill to create the plate in 2022.
Smith’s sister Claudette Osborne-Tyo was reported missing in 2008. Smith founded Drag the Red, which searches in and around the Red River for bodies of missing men and women.
Ka Ni Kanichihk, an organization that helps people through learning and healing programs grounded in traditional Indigenous knowledge and trauma-informed practices, receives $30 from each pair of plates sold for $70. The money primarily supports education costs for students from MMIWG2S families, with some going directly to affected families.
Smith said the plates not only help families with missing loved ones, but remind everyone in the province about the issue.
“There are still families that are searching for answers and we all need to come together and care about this as humans,” she said. “There’s people out there that have information that could lead to solving some of these cases … these families have not given up.”
Other popular specialty plates in 2024 were the Snowmobilers of MB (4,022), the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (3,150) plates and the Winnipeg Jets regular plates (2,253).
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