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·         Starting Jan, 1, 2008, beginning the phase-out of the province’s corporate capital tax and making the Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit 70 per cent refundable;

·         Establish a rapid response team to expedite the resolution of issues faced by individual sectors or companies.

·         Introduce a new timber-pricing policy.

·         Increase the farmland tax rebate to 70 per cent.

·         Launch the Road to 2010 tourism promotion strategy with a goal of reaching $2 billion in annual tourism revenue by 2010.

·         Make an immediate, two-year investment in the equity investment program for local filmmakers while enhancing the incentives for foreign film productions to hire local personnel.

 

·         A commitment to implement Budget 2007 tax reductions, subject to the requirements of balanced budget legislation, including:

-          farmland school tax rebate increase to 70 per cent in 2008;

-          middle income bracket tax rate reduction to 12.75 per cent from 13 per cent, effective Jan. 1, 2008;

-          basic personal amount increase of $200, effective Jan. 1, 2008;

-          corporate income tax rate reduction to 13 per cent from 14 per cent, effective July 1, 2008;

-          small business tax rate reduction to two per cent from three per cent, effective Jan. 1, 2008; and

-          beginning a Corporation Capital Tax phase-out with reduction of the rate to 0.4 per cent from 0.5 per cent, beginning in January 2008.

 

·         Expansion of child-care spaces by another 2,500 over the next two years.

·         New measures to further improve school retention rates.

·         A new partnership with First Nations and the federal government to improve graduation and retention rates.

·         A new Safe Child Care Charter to provide parents with further confidence that their children are being looked after in a safe environment.

·         New legislation that builds on anti-bullying initiatives.

·         Mandatory physical education every year for students entering high school this year.

·         New legislation to ban the sale of foods containing trans fats in school vending machines and cafeterias.

·         A new bicycle trail to be built, to be named the Duff Roblin Trail, extending 40 kilometres from the floodway inlet to Birds Hill Park.

 

·         New nurse training spaces to be added at Manitoba’s universities and colleges.

·         New training spaces to be added at the University of Manitoba school of medicine.

·         A new primary-care paramedic program to be introduced at Red River College.

·         Additional nurses and aides to be hired in personal-care homes.

·         More dieticians, respiratory therapists and occupational therapists to be added as part of a long‑term strategy to improve quality of care for seniors.

·         A new hospital in Selkirk.

·         New operating facilities at Ste. Anne Hospital.

·         Redevelopment of the emergency ward at Steinbach’s Bethesda Hospital.

·         Additional dialysis treatment facilities to be added in Winnipeg and Gimli, and in the First Nations communities of Berens River, Norway House and Peguis.

·         Consultations to begin on constructing a new Women’s Hospital at the Health Sciences Centre.

·         A new South End Birthing Centre to be managed by the Women’s Health Clinic.

·         Redevelopment of the maternity ward at St. Boniface General Hospital.

·         A new MRI and a cardiac catheterization lab at the Children’s Hospital.

·         A new asthma and allergy clinic for children at the Health Sciences Centre.

·         A new pediatric ophthalmology program at the Health Sciences Centre.

 

·         Hiring of more police officers as the first step in a new commitment to add 100 officers.

·         Expanding the Lighthouses program to provide more places for young people to play sports, study or go online in the evenings.

·         Expanding the Turnabout program to provide more monitoring and alternative outings for children under 12 who come in conflict with the law.

·         Adding a new anti-gang Crown attorney in the Brandon region.

·         Adding two new investigative teams to assist communities in tackling organized crime.

·         Introducing new legislation to provide protection for witnesses who testify against gangs.

·         Dedicating a justice unit to enforce a new criminal property forfeiture law.

·         Dedicating a Crown attorney to work exclusively on child exploitation cases.

 

·         An increase in the minimum wage based on previous public consultations.

·         An increase to the child benefit to provide support to working families.

·         An expansion of the popular Safety Aid program to provide security to low-income seniors.

·         Changes to election laws to increase democratic participation and improve accessibility and transparency for citizens.

·        Appointment of a new privacy commissioner with the power to issue orders under Manitoba’s freedom of information and protection of privacy legislation.

·         Introduction of amendments to the Employment Services Act to protect workers who are not covered by existing labour law protections.

 

·         Enhance the University College of the North’s main campus facilities in The Pas and Thompson.

·         Provide additional satellite university campuses in remote communities.

·         Begin work on a tripartite partnership to strengthen primary and secondary education in the north.

·         Expand training of health professionals for northern areas.

·         Further expand the successful Northern Healthy Foods Initiative with the development of a commercial greenhouse at Grand Rapids.

·         Establish a new round table to allow youth in east side communities to discuss challenges and work towards solutions.

·         Begin work on the first leg of the all-weather road from Hollow Water to Bloodvein with the building of two new bridges.

·         Continue route selection now underway for the second leg to Berens River.

·         An increase in the farmland tax rebate to 70 per cent.

·         A $95-million commitment through the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program to support farm income including the livestock sector.

·         A commitment to negotiate a new federal-provincial safety net package.

·         Begin work to extend the successful Bridging Generations program to rural small businesses and fishers.

·         Consult with the co-operative sector to enhance support for co-ops.

·         In partnership with the federal government, launch Value Chain Manitoba, an innovative business model to promote formal partnerships between producers, processors and suppliers.

 

·         Continue work on the Eastern Access project in Brandon.

·         Expand Neighbourhoods Alive! to five new urban centres: Flin Flon, The Pas, Dauphin, Portage la Prairie and Selkirk.

·         Provide support for Brandon’s newly-announced Renaissance Brandon project.

·         Construct new affordable housing in urban centres across the province as part of the HOMEWorks! program and revitalize over 13,000 public housing units.

·         Begin implementing a plan to double funding for recreation facilities across the province including support for proposed facilities in Winnipeg, Brandon, The Pas, Portage la Prairie and the Selkirk Library.

·         Provide funding to add four firefighting positions each in Brandon, Thompson and Portage la Prairie to increase public safety and fire response.

·         Provide $3.8 million to the City of Winnipeg to support 20 new firefighting positions and other priorities of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service.

·         Finalize agreements to be signed for the Museum for Human Rights that will trigger the establishment of the first national museum outside Ottawa.