Oswald lays out plans for first 100 days if elected NDP leader

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With a week to go before the NDP leadership convention, Theresa Oswald announced her plans on Sunday for her first 100 days should she become the premier of Manitoba.

NDP party members will vote March 8 at the party’s leadership convention to decide who will lead the New Democratic Party, and by extension take the office of the premier.

At Sunday’s press conference in St. James, Oswald highlighted her plans as she said “every member and every Manitoban should have a sense of what the plan is going to be and how we’re going to execute that plan.”

In addition to highlighting her general plans to protect hospitals and schools, make college and university more affordable and create jobs, Oswald said she would unveil a new provincial sales tax rebate.

“Our budget will create a new PST rebate for low-income families,” Oswald said. “Right away we will be starting the pilot project for the program that we announced during this campaign for free in-school tutoring… and fund new positions for midwives in our province. We will hire more immigration officers and workplace health and safety officers because we’ve heard from our new Canadians that we have to make our processes go faster and be even more efficient than they are today.”

Oswald is one of three candidates in the leadership race, along with Premier Greg Selinger and former infrastructure minister Steve Ashton. Oswald is a former health minister who was a part of a group of former ministers whose revolt last fall triggered the leadership race, while Ashton is a veteran cabinet minister who took no sides in a power struggle with Selinger.

“It’s going to be our members that choose the next leader of this party and that’s exactly as it should be. The membership should have the power and the will to decide who it is that they want to lead the NDP going into the next election,” Oswald said.