News Releases

WINNIPEG – Just two weeks before Manitoba’s 2012 February flood outlook, the NDP have finally announced an independent review of the 2011 flood, with the issue of compensation glaringly absent.  The NDP’s extensive delay in announcing the review also means the report will come too late to identify effective flood mitigation strategies and begin necessary construction for 2012. “The NDP’s flood review should include the compensation of people affected as part of the task force … Continue reading →

Gord Mackintosh no longer answering for tragic suffering of children in care  WINNIPEG – Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard says the NDP have shuffled Gord Mackintosh out of the Family Services ministry to protect him from having to answer for the growing number of children in the care of Child and Family Services – including those who have suffered and died.  The NDP’s delayed release of Family Service’s last annual report – released less than two … Continue reading →

WINNIPEG – Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard, joined by Green Party Leader James Beddome, Manitoba Wildlands Director Gaile Whelan Enns, and Wilderness Committee Campaign Director Eric Reder, today spoke out against the NDP allowance of peat harvesting and/or mining in provincial parks today at the Manitoba Legislature.  The Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park, adjacent to Lake Winnipeg, may be home to a 531-hectare peat mine.  An NDP-designed public consultation process could open the floodgates to many more peat mines across … Continue reading →

Gerrard calls upon NDP for independent flood review to prevent future mismanagement  WINNIPEG – Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard is calling upon Premier Greg Selinger to conduct an independent review of the 2011 flood to ensure thousands of Manitobans do not again suffer the financial and emotional effects of damage to their homes and livelihoods.  Gerrard, who has travelled extensively throughout the province meeting with flood-affected Manitobans this year, has released his own interim report with … Continue reading →

Liberals call for immediate appointment of permanent finance minister  WINNIPEG – The NDP’s second-quarter budget shows a forecast estimated deficit for 2011-2012 – excluding flood expenditures – of $661,563,000 in core government operations, a rise of $150,742,000 in the projected deficit in core government expenditures.  When flood expenditures are included, the overall deficit is projected to be about one billion dollars.  Manitoba Liberals are calling for an immediate appointment of a permanent finance minister, the … Continue reading →