February 8, 2023 - Manitoba should act on Affordability, Public Services,

Manitoba should act on Affordability, Public Services, Poverty and Climate: Budget Submission 3 Electrification to build resiliency in Manitoba in the face of rising oil and gas prices The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba is proud to be a member of the Climate Action Team Manitoba. [...] From 2016–2021, 2,644 positions have been eliminated from the Manitoba civil service — a cut of nearly 18 percent.5 Instead of halting cuts to the public civil service, Manitoba opted to contract out to the private sector for the delivery of services during the pandemic (forthcoming Harder and McCracken). [...] The privatization agenda of the Manitoba government is starving the public sector of needed resources to provide adequate services without due attention paid to the impact of these changes. [...] In order to rebate low-income households for the cost of the PST, we propose the creation of a PST rebate in Manitoba, similar to the GST rebate. [...] The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers or funders of this report.