By Dave Baxter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) and a Manitoba MLA are expressing disappointment and frustration with the province now that it has been confirmed that Sept. 30 will not be a statutory holiday in Manitoba this year. “The provincial government had ample time to process and approve this statutory holiday,” AMC Deputy Grand Chief Cornell McLean said in a statement responding to last month’s announcement by the province that Sept. 30, which is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, will not be observed in the province as a statutory holiday this year. The province said it does plan to make Sept. 30, a day also referred to as Orange Shirt Day, a statutory holiday in Manitoba eventually, but that it

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