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Greenhouse gas emissions have gone up under Gary Doer’s watch to 11% above 1990 levels.

Greenhouse gas emissions spiked by 20% between 2004 and 2005 alone. (Environment Canada)

Manitoba now lags behind 4 other provinces in megawatts of installed wind power: MB = 20 MW compared to AB = 275, QC = 212 MW, NS = 32 MW, SK = 22 MW (David Suzuki Foundation)

The toxic algal bloom problem on Lake Winnipeg and other Manitoba lakes today is the worst it has ever been.

No environment levy or other green tax shift to discourage the indiscriminate cosmetic use of fertilizers containing phosphorus.

Zero provincial support for small farmers and municipalities to end winter manure spreading

Health Care:

Eight years after promising to end hallway medicine – we still have hallway medicine in hospitals.

Emergency rooms are now in critical condition from a desperate shortage of doctors, as is the case at the Grace and St. Boniface Hospitals.

NDP continues to run a bureaucrat-centred health care system instead of a patient-centred system

Children and Families:

Provincial child care facilities threatened with closure or forced to charge new ancillary fees due to lack of a concrete provincial child care plan.
Children still housed in Winnipeg hotel rooms and not with caring foster families.
A Child and Family Services system resulting in the deaths of 31 children involved in the CFS system.

Education:

University students voluntarily hiking their tuition fees to fix crumbing university facilities and retain top caliber professors.

School boards and trustees hamstrung by sudden, unexpected NDP regulations on how to budget for surpluses – contrary to the advice of the provincial auditor and other independent auditors.

School boards having to levy huge property tax bills to make up for inadequate provincial funding for public schools.

Economy and Competitiveness:

Manitoba continues to suffer a net loss of people to Saskatchewan

Manitoba is the only western province to have suffered a net inter-provincial migration loss in the most recent figures

Manitoba now ties Newfoundland for having the highest percentage of inter-provincial outflow among Canadian provinces

“Gary Doer and the NDP spin machine continue with their tired old scam of shoveling money out of the back of a truck, hoping it falls somewhere useful, and praying that no one notices that it’s just blowing away in the wind. This latest NDP budget isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.”