As Manitoba’s election campaign nears the final weekend, a panel of Manitoba doctors has thrown its support behind the NDP.
They approve of the party’s promise to hire more health-care workers, especially in rural areas and the North.
The Liberals promised tools for debt relief with the focus on businesses and farmers, and the Progressive Conservatives said they’d expand domestic violence and sexual assault counselling services, and provide more funding for women’s shelters.
Election day is next Tuesday, October 3rd. Advance Polls will open until this Saturday, September 30th.
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There’s growing disapproval of the Conservatives recent ad campaigns.
One newspaper ad highlighted their decision not to search a landfill for the remains of two murdered Indigenous women. It read in part “Stand firm against the unsafe 184-million dollar landfill dig”. The ad went up despite demands from First Nations and activists that the province proceed with a search of the landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.
And now a new ad attacks the New Democrats. The CBC reports the Conservatives’ full-page ad in Wednesday’s Winnipeg Free Press “draws attention to to past criminal charges against NDP Leader Wab Kinew and Thompson incumbent candidate Eric Redhead, as well as Fort Garry incumbent candidate Mark Wasyliw’s work as a criminal defence lawyer – and social media posts or policy positions taken by four other NDP candidates.”
It has the candidates laid out like a deck of cards, and reads “Don’t gamble on the NDP, you will be dealt a very bad hand. With zero experience running the government, don’t believe the bluff. Discard the whole NDP deck.”
Kinew was labelled a “joker” who was once “charged with domestic assault, drunk driving and violent assault of a cab driver.” Kinew called the newest ad “desperate” American-style negative politics, and Liberal leader Dougald Lamont said this shows the Tories “will stoop to anything to try and get elected – and that’s disgraceful.”
(With files from the CBC and The Canadian Press)
