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Promise tracker: What Manitoba's main parties would do if they win the election

The Canadian Press
Promise tracker: What Manitoba's main parties would do if they win the election

WINNIPEG, MAN. – Manitobans go to the polls on Tuesday. Here’s a look at some of the promises announced by the province’s three major parties over the past month:

Progressive Conservatives

  • Stand firm in the government’s decision not to search the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of slain First Nations women Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, citing safety concerns.
  • Cut in half the rate applied to the bottom personal income-tax bracket, saving the average person earning $50,000 in annual income $1,900 per year when fully implemented in 2028.
  • Remove the federally imposed carbon price on the natural gas portion of hydro bills.
  • Eliminate the land transfer tax for first-time homebuyers, saving about $5,700 on the average home.
  • Spend $120 million over four years to recruit health-care workers.
  • Provide up to $10 million in capital funding to develop of a First Nations-operated addiction centre in Winnipeg.

New Democrats

  • Commit to searching the Prairie Green landfill, without pledging a specific funding amount.
  • Make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Sept. 30, a statutory holiday in the province.
  • Open four family medical centres in Winnipeg and one in Brandon staffed with emergency room doctors, nurses and technologists.
  • Temporarily suspend the provincial fuel tax until inflation subsides.
  • Freeze hydroelectric rates for one year.
  • Lift the provincial sales tax on the construction of new rental units.

Liberals

  • Fund a search of the Prairie Green landfill on a 50/50 basis with the federal government, with an initial commitment of $42 million.
  • Make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday.
  • Establish a minimum income for people over 60 and people with disabilities.
  • Allocate bonus pay of between $5,000 and $10,000 for front-line health-care workers.
  • Provide medicare coverage for people who need access to mental health services.
  • Create a $300-million-a-year fund to pay for climate change initiatives.

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