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A Winnipeg-area daycare built with $5.5 million worth of provincial funds has yet to care for a single child, because the NDP government says it can't figure out who owns the land.
A 74-space daycare built in the rural municipality of East St. Paul, just north of Winnipeg, on behalf of the Peguis First Nation Real Estate Trust in 2024 has yet to open its doors.
The structure sat vacant throughout 2025, even though the daycare operator waiting to use the building has 600 kids on its waiting list. It also went months without Manitoba Hydro service, as the media outlet Terra Indigena first reported.
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The East St. Paul daycare was one of 22 built in Manitoba as part of a project started by the former Progressive Conservative government along with JohnQ Public, a company owned by 11 Manitoba municipalities.
The province paid out $3.3 million of the $5.5 million budgeted for the daycare before funding for the project stopped flowing in November 2024, according to the province.
Brian O'Leary, the former deputy minister of education and early childhood learning, said the project may not have followed normal provincial or municipal procurement practices, according to an April 16, 2025, letter tabled in the Manitoba Legislature.
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