View From the Legislature

This past week Premier Greg Selinger kicked NDP MLA and former cabinet minister Christine Melnick out of the NDP Caucus.

February is I Love To Read Month and I look forward to visiting elementary schools in our region to donate books to their libraries.

More than eight years after she was murdered, ending a short life that had too much neglect and suffering, Commissioner Ted Hughes issued his long-awaited inquiry report into the life and death of five year old Phoenix Sinclair.

Two by-elections were held on Tuesday to elect new representatives to the Manitoba Legislature for the constituencies of Morris and for Arthur-Virden. In the case of Morris, the NDP government waited nearly a year to have the vacant seat filled.

Through floods and fires we have seen over the years how an emergency brings out the best in Manitobans.

It’s sometimes hard to fully appreciate the things that are closest to us. Often it takes visitors to tell us just how fortunate we are.

For Premier Greg Selinger and the NDP government, looking for someone to blame when something bad happens has almost become a reflex response.

Last week in media interviews, prominent Winnipeg lawyer, Robert Tapper, said that “Greg Selinger is simply no Gary Doer.”

It’s traditional at this time of the year to look back on the previous twelve months and to look ahead at the year to come.

Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) put the icing on the year of tax and fee hikes when it was granted a premium increase for many vehicles last week.