Manitoba Tory government now showing its ‘true colours’: analyst
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government served notice Thursday it is set to follow through on promises to curb public-sector wages, reduce the number of health care bargaining units and possibly raise post-secondary tuition fees.
The Tories announced that they intend to introduce a half-dozen bills on Monday that are part of their plan to start chipping away at the province’s billion-dollar deficit.
“You could say their true colours are beginning to emerge,” Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba, said of the Conservatives 11 months after they defeated the New Democrats in a provincial election.
“There’s no doubting (Premier Brian Pallister’s) ideological orientation. It’s very much towards less government, lower taxes, deregulation, more emphasis on job creation and … the creation of wealth and less on the redistribution of wealth.”