Election Results: Greg Selinger of the New Democratic Party has been re-elected as Premier of Manitoba. The New Democrats have won a majority government.
Nomination Deadline: September 13, 2011
Provincial Election: October 4, 2011
Currently, the Premier of Manitoba is Greg Selinger of the New Democratic Party.
In Manitoba, kindergarten and child care are in separate ministries. Kindergarten is under Manitoba Education, and child care is under Manitoba Family Services and Consume Affairs. Kindergarten is a part-day program for all five year olds and is not mandatory to attend.
Progressive Conservative Party
Leader: Hugh McFayden
Platform: "Our Plan" [1]
Liberal Party
Leader: Jon Gerrard
Platform: "Our Platform" [2]
"Create more day care spaces and improve early childhood education"
New Democratic Party
Leader: Greg Selinger
Platform: "Our Plan"
[3]"Implementing Canada's first province-wide online child care registry;"
"Creating 6,500 new child care spaces and 1,000 enhanced nursery spaces by 2013"
"Investing in early childhood, play-based curriculum"
>>See Quality Child Care [4]
Green Party
Leader: James Beddome
Platform: 2011 Green Party Platform [5]
Communist Party of Canada
Leader: Darrell Rankin
Platform: "The Communist Platform"
[6]"End child hunger and poverty... Raise social assistance to above the poverty line."
The MTS Provincial Election Handbook [7]
The Manitoba Teacher's Society, Sep 2011
>>see pages 25-26 for Potential Questions for Candidates [8]
MCCA Provincial Election Newsletters [8]
Manitoba Child Care Association, Sep 2011
Answers from the PC Party [9]
The Manitoba School Board Society, 29 Aug, 2011
Answers from the Liberal Party [10]
The Manitoba School Board Society, Aug 2011
Questions to Leaders [11]
The Manitoba School Board Society, Aug 2011
Education no longer atop the issues [12]
Winnipeg Free Press, 3 Oct 2011
Room for thought [13]
CBC News, 21 Sep 2011
Daycare dollars [14]
CBC News, 19 Sep 2011
In Search of Daycare [15]
CBC News, 16 Sep 2011
Liberals focus on early education and child care [16]
The Canadian Press, 11 Sep 2011
Gerrard vows $44.5M over five years for more daycare spaces; NDP jeers [17]
The Winnipeg Press, 10 Sep 2011
Party leaders pledge millions for health & child care [18]
Global News, 1 Sep 2011
Conservatives promise extended child-care benefit [19]
Winnipeg Free Press, 1 Sep 2011
Links
[1] http://www.pcmanitoba.com/main.asp?cat_ID=3
[2] http://mlp.manitobaliberals.ca/our-platform/
[3] http://todaysndp.ca/our-plan
[4] http://todaysndp.ca/quality-child-care-families
[5] https://greenparty.mb.ca/download/GPM2011-Platform.pdf
[6] http://communist-party.ca/cp_manitoba/
[7] http://mbteach.org/extras/Election%202011/flip%20election%20booklet/2001_MTS_Provincial_Election_Handbook/index.htm
[8] http://mccahouse.org/ProvincialElection2011.htm
[9] http://www.mbschoolboards.ca/PC%20for%20SJC.pdf
[10] http://www.mbschoolboards.ca/MB%20LIB%20Q_Reply.pdf
[11] http://www.mbschoolboards.ca/Question%20to%20leaders.pdf
[12] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/11/10/education-no-longer-atop-issues
[13] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitobavotes2011/blog/2011/09/room-for-thought.html
[14] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/11/09/daycare-dollars
[15] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitobavotes2011/blog/2011/09/in-search-of-daycare.html
[16] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/11/09/liberals-focus-early-education-and-childcare
[17] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/11/09/gerrard-vows-445m-over-five-years-more-daycare-spaces-ndp-jeers
[18] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/11/09/party-leaders-pledge-millions-health-child-care
[19] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/11/09/conservatives-promise-extended-child-care-benefit
[20] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/election