Feds happy to work with new gov’t: Carr
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The federal government will gladly work with the new government in Manitoba, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said at a Manitoba Chamber of Commerce breakfast Friday.
The electorate “spoke powerfully with respect for change, and we’re looking forward to moving ahead as partners” with Manitoba’s new Progressive Conservative government, Carr said.
Carr phoned premier-designate Brian Pallister on Thursday to congratulate him, and also spoke to defeated premier Greg Selinger to thank him for his time in public service.

“It’s time now to welcome a new era in Manitoba politics,” Carr said. “I wish the premier and his government well.”
Carr also said provincial Liberals should take heart from their performance. The party tripled its seats, albeit to just three, and doubled its popular support. However, the party got caught in a vote for change. Carr compared it to how the vote swung away from the NDP to the Liberal Party in the last federal election when people decided Liberals had the best chance to dethrone the incumbent government.
“It’s the natural ebb and flow of politics,” he said.
He said provincial Liberals should “stay in the game.”
“I think the Liberal Party should be encouraged by its growth in public support, (showing) that there is room in Manitoba for the Liberal Party and Liberal ideas.”
Carr referred to himself as “minister in charge of rocks…and trees.” He said it’s no longer a case of the environment “versus” the natural resources sector; the two have to work hand-in-hand.
He took questions from the business audience, which knows him well from his days as head of the Manitoba Business Council.
Brian Kotak, manager of the Manitoba Model Forest, based in Pine Falls, asked if he could count on the government’s in efforts to develop the forest industry in Eastern Manitoba, to the benefit of indigenous communities.
“You’ll have it,” said Carr, adding that’s the type of partnership the government wants to forge.
When a member of the Canada Council for the Arts thanked Carr’s government for doubling funding, Carr responded that “it’s not enough.”
Carr was a classical musician before he entered politics. When he was 21, he said, the Canada Council sponsored him so he could study oboe under a master player in San Francisco.
“You’re thanking me? I’m thanking you,” he replied.
bill.redekop@freepress.mb.ca