Moody’s downgraded the province’s outlook to negative in August 2014 due to the “risk surrounding Manitoba’s plan to achieve a balanced budget by fiscal year 2016-17”, the ratings agency said in a statement at the time.
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The Canadian prairie province ousted the NDP government of Greg Selinger in favor of the Progressive Conservative Party led by Brian Pallister.
“Having greater say in how monies are spent in our jurisdiction should assist us to have a greater say and spend money more wisely”, Bowman said.
Just a few days ahead of the election, a new poll suggests Brian Pallister’s party is pulling even further ahead in the race. However, a report in the Costa Rica Star has listed companies and assets that Pallister possesses in the country.
However, a spokesperson for Pallister’s party, Ross Romaniuk, has disputed the claims of the newspaper in an email to CBC describing this as a “desperate Selinger NDP attempt to distract from the issues that really matter to Manitobans”.
However, during the federal election a year ago, Manitoba’s outgoing NDP premier, Greg Selinger, expressed support for expanding the CPP.
The New Democrats will head into an election campaign next spring facing a Liberal government looking to win a fifth consecutive mandate.
Political watchers said Broten faced a herculean task in taking down Premier Brad Wall, who consistently tops public popularity polls.
Ever since the Prime Minister and leader of the NDP, Greg Selinger raised the sales tax in 2013, after promising during the election campaign he would not, things have been going down hill for the New Democrats.
One analyst said the NDP campaign had problems, largely because it was run by less-experienced backroom strategists.
One of the rebel five, Andrew Swan was re-elected for the NDP in Minto, and Kevin Chief won in Point Douglas. He was a provincial minister in the mid-90s during the last Tory government in the province. Simultaneously, they are spending on infrastructure while also introducing a broad-based carbon tax to remake the face of Alberta as both cleaner and greener.
The NDP in Newfoundland and Labrador seemed on the rise through much of the past decade, but political scientists say an internal squabble managed to turn gains into a major setback. She has not held a seat in the legislature since she was elected leader in 2013.
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-With files from Rob Drinkwater in Edmonton.
