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Premier Greg Selinger may have a date in mind for recalling the Manitoba legislature and unveiling a new budget, but he wasn’t sharing it today.
In a brief interview with the Free Press, he also declined to speculate on what role his leadership challengers and caucus dissidents would play in his government.
Nor would he reveal when he would call a byelection in The Pas. The constituency has been without an MLA since Frank Whitehead resigned nearly a year ago. According to provincial law, the premier must call the byelection within a year of the seat becoming vacant.
Selinger would not say whether he would wait until after the byelection to recall the legislature.
A day after narrowly hanging onto his job at the NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg, the premier allowed several one-on-one interviews with media on a first-come-first-serve basis this afternoon. His press secretary limited each interview to five minutes.
Selinger also refused to say if or when leadership candidate Steve Ashton may be welcomed back into cabinet. Ashton’s duties as infrastructure and emergency measures minister were handed to Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn after the Thompson MLA resigned in December to seek the leadership.
Kostyshyn has been doing double duty ever since.
He also declined to speculate on what role the five rebel cabinet ministers would play in his government. The five, and two other dissident MLAs, are formally members of the NDP caucus, but are not allowed to attend caucus meetings.
