View From the Legislature

For more than two years, members of the Winnipeg Jewish community, along with other supporters, would gather every week along Kenaston Boulevard holding pictures of the hostages who were taken during the horrific terrorist attack of October 7, 2023.

Question Period at the Manitoba Legislature, or any Legislature in Canada for that matter, is a heated affair.

Last week a Winnipeg media outlet ran an online poll that garnered thousands of responses.

There are many challenges that face the democratic system today in Canada and in many countries. One of the most basic is simply a lack of understanding of how the day-to-day system of governing works.

Like many people, I was shocked and deeply disturbed by the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week.

For anyone who has lived through even a single Manitoba winter, it is understood that our summers are too short.

It is often easy to take for granted that the things we want, or need, are always going to be readily available when we want them.

One of the things I have consistently stated during my time in elected life, whether as an MLA, the Attorney General or even as Premier in the fall of 2021 is that people have a democratic right to protest.

With politics being as divided as ever it seems, there is a desire by many to hear from elected leaders who believe in less partisanship and less division.

It was one of those news stories that quickly drew attention and just as quickly caused a sharp reaction.