View From the Legislature

Premier Greg Selinger and the NDP government finally announced that they are ready to return to the legislature to debate issues and answer questions…but not until April 12th.

The past several years have seen a number of changes to the business landscape in southeastern Manitoba.

None of the excuses are credible anymore. It has been well over three years since then Premier Gary Doer made an announcement that the Emergency Room at the Bethesda Hospital in Steinbach would be expanded.

Just seven months prior to a provincial election, The NDP government has begun to roll out multi-million dollar election promises designed to cover-up 11 years of missed opportunity.

Earlier this month police officers raised a concern about a little known practice of the NDP justice system.

It’s time that the provincial government gave farmers their due and not simply the blame.

It’s just gone from bad, to much worse! There were plenty of reasons before for Manitobans to have objections about the NDP government’s plan to run a new Bi-Pole hydro transmission line down the west side of the province even though a route on the east side of Lake Winnipeg is much shorter.

On Tuesday January 18th I spent the day in Fargo, North Dakota at the Red River Basin Commission annual meeting where flood forecasters from the U.S. Weather Service were giving their update on potential spring flooding in North Dakota.

Sometimes when people think about the problem of crime they think about it as an urban concern.

Many rural Manitobans know all too well how hard it is to find a family doctor. In many rural communities, including those in the southeast, there simply are not enough doctors to ensure everyone has their own family physician.