The opposition NDP are continuing to press the Pallister Government on the current and future job situation in the Nor-Man region.

 

In the Legislature last week, Flin Flon MLA Tom Lindsey said that northern Manitobans don’t know what this government is doing to grow the northern economy.

 

He said that the Premier has made it clear countless times that he knows job losses are coming and that he has know for a long.

 

Lindsey then asked when the Premier will “stop the evasions, take responsibility for helping northern Manitobans with a plan to grow the economy and maintain the services they need”.

 

Growth, Enterprise and Trade Minister Blaine Pederson responded to Lindsey, saying that they are “ working very closely with the mining industry in the north as there is potential for discovery and they are working with communities to open those mines as well as working on a tourism strategy”. 

 

Lindsey then again asked when the minister will talk to northern Manitobans and give them a northern economic jobs plan.

 

Our Member of Parliament, Niki Ashton, raised similar concerns in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Liberals to do more about the job situation in northern Manitoba.