The province is searching the Prairie Green landfill to the north of Winnipeg alongside the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Two victims of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibitzki are believed to have been dropped off at that landfill.

And for more on this, I want to bring in CBC's Cameron McIntosh.

So Cam, we know that searching this landfill was a key campaign promise of Premier Wab Kanu.

And they're making progress here with this update that they are working their way through the stages of a five-stage process.

Yeah, this has been a long process here in Manitoba.

In many ways, it's been a social process, a moral process, and a political process.

And what we're hearing today from the Premier of Manitoba is that final prep work at that landfill site is currently underway.

And what that means is basically they've identified an area of the landfill where they want to excavate.

It's about two hectares square and about 10 metres down.

Topsoil or the material that's on top of that right now is being removed while a temporary sorting facility is still being built.

Now, this is to find remains of two women, Morgan Harris and Mercedes Myron.

It's believed that parts of their dismembered bodies were transported to that landfill more than two years ago.

So this is material that is packed down into the earth.

Test digging, testing earlier this year yielded some positive or some encouraging results.

They excavated in another part of the landfill.

To that depth, they were able to find things at that depth that were fairly well preserved.

The project manager says they found things like newspapers and receipts that they could still read.

So there's some optimism that if they can get into this area that they can, in fact, find remains.

But it is very challenging.

Two hectares at that depth.

We're talking about removing about 5,100 garbage trucks' worth of material.

All that material will be sorted through by hand.

So this is a process that may take an awfully long time.

The premier is saying that this could go well into 2026.

Cam, we heard the premier referencing the families quite a bit and his support for the families, his desire for the families to feel that support from the province in doing this search.

They were part or family members of the victims were part of the announcement today.

What was their reaction to the progress that's been made?

Well, they've gone from extremely skeptical and extremely angry to extremely supportive.

And this has been a long political process here in Manitoba.

Basically, from the day where Winnipeg police said that they believed that the remains were in this landfill, the families have been fighting to get a search going.

And with the previous government, they met resistance.

It actually became an election issue here in Manitoba.

The government changed partially on this issue, but on others as well.

And since that point, the one year that Wampanoag's NDP government has been in power, there has been work going on in the background to get to this point.

So now we're at this point.

Family says it's encouraged that this work is proceeding, and that it's proceeding in a way that has been reflective and respective of the family's wishes.

Here now is Kamdre Harris, the daughter of Morgan Harris.

We're overwhelmed with the sheer compassion within individuals that we're meeting along the way.

The compassion that people share as we sit through these interviews, interviewing people for the search.

And it's a lot.

In the next few months ahead, it'll be very emotionally tolling, it'll be physically tolling.

It's been two years now that my mom's been laying in a landfill, as well as Mercedes Myron, and that's two years too long.

But for our families, we're finally seeing that light at the end of the tunnel.

So that again, Kamdre Harris, the daughter of Morgan Harris, whose remains are believed to be in that landfill, along with the remains of Mercedes Myron.

Again, the province saying that it hopes to get to the point where it's excavating and sorting through target material here sometime in early December.

Of course, all that contingent on the weather as final prep work at that site is underway.

Okay, Kam, thanks so much.

That is the CBC's Cameron McIntosh.

Thank you.