April 15th. The day after this was posted, Greenhouses and Garden Centres have now been declared an essential business. Thank you everyone involved in advocating for this change - for we have succeeded.
I am getting many emails and calls to enable garden centre and greenhouse businesses to open as they should be considered essential businesses. They are very important as part of our food supply chain because many people rely on vegetables and other plants to produce their food during the summer. It does not make sense to allow companies all over Manitoba to produce vegetables for people's consumption and not allow people to grow vegetables themselves. Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta already consider garden centres and greenhouses as essential businesses which can operate during the pandemic. It is time for Manitoba to do the same. There will need, as with other businesses which operate during the pandemic the need for garden centres and greenhouses to operate safely and with appropriate physical distancing.
Dougald Lamont speaks at Meth Forum last night to present positive ideas to address the epidemic, while exposing the lack of action by the Pallister Conservatives
Last night at the Notre Dame Recreation Centre in St. Boniface, at an Election Forum on the Meth Crisis in Manitoba, Dougald Lamont spoke eloquently about the severity of the meth epidemic and described the Liberal plan to address it. The Liberal Plan will make sure that there is a single province-wide phone number for people, or friends of people, who need help dealing with meth to call (as there is in Alberta) and that there will be rapid access to a seamless series of steps - stabilization, detoxification, treatment, extended supportive housing etc so that people with meth addiction can be helped well and effectively and so that they can rebuild their lives. The Liberal meth plan will be helped by our approach to mental health (putting psychological therapies under medicare), and to poverty (providing better support). It will also be helped by our vigorous efforts to help young people understand the problems with meth in our education system and to provide alternative positive
What an amazing accomplishment. Thanks Liberal Party for advocating for this important change
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