NDP - Tory debate on who is the worst at looking after northern roads

On June 12th, NDP MLA Jim Maloway and Tory MLA Ron Shuler debated with each other as to who was the worst in building northern roads. Their debate, from Hansard, is below:

Northern Manitoba Roads - Infrastructure Investment

Mr. Jim Maloway (Elmwood): This government has cut investments in highways to a tune of $152 million this year alone, slashed funding for northern roads. Under their watch, Provincial Road 391 from Thompson to Lynn Lake is crumbling. Under their watch, Provincial Road 280 to Gillam is crumbling. Under their watch, Highway 39 to Snow Lake is crumbling.

How does this government expect to grow the northern economy, mining, logging and tourism, when they're not even willing to build and maintain northern roads?

Hon. Ron Schuler (Minister of Infrastructure): Well, Madam Speaker, how about we look at the record of the previous government, the NDP, including the member for Elmwood, who spent $500 million on the East Side Road Authority, and what did Manitobans get? Well, in 2011 Manitobans got, for their $500 million, 7.2 kilometres.

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Comparison between Manitoba and South Dakota shows dramatic impact of Physical Distancing

Manitoba implemented physical distancing measures in mid-March. South Dakota has still not made physical distancing mandatory. The result is a dramatic difference in the incidence of covid-19 viral infections between the two jurisdictions. This graph shows the number of people with Covid-19 infections from March 27 to April 14. Manitoba ( red line ) started leveling off about April 4 and has seen only a small increase in Covid-19 infections since then. South Dakota ( blue line ) has seen a dramatic increase in Covid-19 infections since April 4. Those who are skeptical of the impact of physical distancing in Manitoba should look at this graph! Data are from the Johns Hopkins daily tabulations

Pushing for safe consumption sites and safe supply to reduce overdose deaths

On Monday June 20th, Thomas Linner of the Manitoba Health Coalition, Arlene Last-Kolb Regional Director of Moms Stop the Harm and Winnipeg City Councillor Sherri Rollins were at the Manitoba Legislature to advocate for better measures to reduce deaths from drug overdoses, most particularly for safe consumption sites and for a safe supply, measures which can reduce overdose deaths.

Dougald Lamont speaks out strongly against the "reprehensible", "legally and morally indefensible" Bill 2

Early in the morning, just after 3 am, on November 6th, Dougald Lamont spoke at third reading of Bill 2, the Budget Implementation and Statutes Amendment Act. He spoke strongly against the bill because it attempts to legitimize a historic injustice against children in the care of child and family services. As Dougald says this bill is " the betrayal of children, First Nations and the people of this province. " Mr. Dougald Lamont (St. Boniface): These are historic times. This is an historic budget, for all the wrong reasons. I was thinking of the Premier's (Mr. Pallister) comments about D-Day today and my relatives who served in combat in the First and Second World War. I had a relative who played for the Blue Bombers and served at D-Day with the Winnipeg Rifles because he was an excellent athlete, he made it quite a long way up the beach. And had he lived until last year, he might have been one of the veterans the Premier insulted by not showing up at a

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