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One year into the government’s mandate, Manitobans are starting to see relief from high costs, improvements in health care and more good jobs, but there’s still more to do - the throne speech lays out a plan to keep delivering for families.

Among the commitments made in the throne speech are:

• Making progress on health care: building on the 870 net new health-care workers and new clinics in Winnipeg and Brandon with a new ER wait times strategy, 800 new hip and knee surgeries at the Selkirk Regional Health Centre and applications for an improved plastic health card rolling out before the end of the year.
• Lowering your bills: with a plan to freeze Manitoba Hydro rates for one year, and new steps to provide relief to renters and homeowners, and address anti-competitive contracts that make groceries more expensive.
• Growing the economy: with a new critical minerals strategy, a new Indigenous loan guarantee program to help big energy projects move forward and big infrastructure projects like twinning the Trans-Canada Highway east.
• Making our downtowns and communities safer: with the new Public Safety Strategy, which will put more police on the streets, hire more mental health workers to work alongside first responders, crack down on drug dealers and get dangerous weapons off Manitoba streets.
• Giving kids the freedom to be kids: building on the province’s universal school meal program and cellphone ban to help kids focus on learning, with updated science curriculums and a dedicated unit on financial literacy in Grade 9, and a commitment to ensure all First Nations people are able to vote in school board elections.
• Protecting our environment: with the government’s new Affordable Energy Plan, improvements to efficiency codes and a new stakeholder working group to help protect Lake Winnipeg.
• Protecting freedom and democracy: with an all-party committee to look at the future of diverse, local journalism and an inquiry into the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters construction project.
• Honouring our past while giving hope to our future: with a new mother and child bison statue to be built on the front lawn of the legislative building grounds, and a new honour for veterans and other Manitoba heroes.