News - Manitoba NDP

March 24, 2021

NDP Delays Bill 40 to Fight Pallister’s Privatization Agenda and Protect Communities

Today the Manitoba NDP announced they would delay Bill 40, a bill that would lead to a decrease in public funding for healthcare, education and addictions programming and put the health of communities at risk. Bill 40 opens the door to the further privatization of liquor sales in Manitoba. “Manitoba...

March 22, 2021

NDP Delay Pallisters Anti-Protest Bill

The Manitoba NDP Caucus announced today that they will delay a PC anti-protest bill that undermines democracy and infringes on Manitobans’ right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. “From nurses protesting PC cuts, to people of all ages and backgrounds united against systemic racism, to young leaders demanding...

March 19, 2021

NDP Delay Anti-Labour Bill to Stand Up for Collective Bargaining Rights

The Manitoba NDP is showing solidarity with front line workers and labour organizations by using its parliamentary privileges to delay the Pallister government’s regressive Bill 16 – The Labour Relations Amendment Act and ensure the bill is not guaranteed to pass in June. “Working families have been under intense pressure...

March 19, 2021

NDP Stand with Families for Better Seizure Care

The Manitoba NDP is presenting a petition on behalf of epilepsy patients and their families with more than 500 signatures calling on the Pallister government to address shortages at the clinic and invest in seizure treatment. “When qualified specialists, like neurologists, leave our health system it’s on the Pallister government...

March 17, 2021

PCs Cut Education Funding and Teachers During a Pandemic

The Manitoba NDP is sharing government data that shows the PCs cut provincial funding for Education in 2020/21 by $4.2 million— the first absolute dollar funding cut in fifteen years. For the last 5 years under the Pallister government, schools have been forced to do more with less as PC...

March 15, 2021

NDP Will Delay Bill that Weakens Public Utilities Board and Raise Hydro Rates

The NDP Official Opposition will invoke parliamentary power to delay Bill 35 The Public Utilities Ratepayer Protection and Regulatory Reform Act and prevent it from being guaranteed passage by April 2021. “We believe in cheap electricity bills for working families and we reject the idea government can have carte blanche...