A pre-election throne speech

As I listened to yesterday's throne speech, it became immediately apparent that the NDP are shoveling programs and money out of the back end of their campaign truck. Rather than the usual coherent throne speech, it was an unfocused shopping list.

Let's look at the facts. For seven years now the NDP have promised to fix health care, to fix the roads, to clean up Lake Winnipeg and to keep young people in Manitoba.

And now, after seven years, this year there were huge problems with our health care system. This year, the condition of Manitoba's highways was worse than it has even been. On Lake Winnipeg, the algal blooms have been worse than even. And we have been losing many, many young people to other provinces.

In seven years, the NDP still have not accomplished their core objectives. It is time for Gary Doer to move on.

In the photo, I am with my colleague Kevin Lamoureux just after the end of the throne speech.