The Flood of 2022

 On Monday, April 25th,  I spoke in response to a Minister's statement on the flood situation in Manitoba.   My comments are below (from Hansard) 

Mr. Gerrard: Madam Speaker, we have very serious flooding and snow events over the weekend: East St. Paul, the RM of Stanley, the RM of Cartier and in quite a number of other areas have been very significantly affected.

      Around Rossburn and Onanole there's been very heavy snow. In fact, residents are being told, where there's hydro lines out, that the Hydro people can't even come in until the roads are cleared.

April 13th, the Manitoba Liberal leader, the MLA for St. Boniface, raised concerns about flooding and asked for a briefing from the gov­ern­ment, to be sure that the gov­ern­ment was preparing well.

April 21st, in response to the budget, I also men­tioned flooding concerns, and the gov­ern­ment MLAs laughed at my raising this but, I'm glad today the minister and the gov­ern­ment is taking a flood much more seriously and that we're having a min­is­terial statement.

      We're still waiting for the briefing from the gov­ern­ment and hope that they will give a briefing to us and other MLAs shortly.