THOMPSON - Record rainfall and extreme weather has had a negative impact on communities and the infrastructure they depend on across Northern Manitoba. Niki Ashton MP for Churchill-Keewatinook Aski is calling on the federal government to step in.

 

THOMPSON - Yesterday, at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, NDP MP Niki Ashton (Churchill--Keewatinook Aski) grilled the Minister of Public Services and Procurement over a conflict of interest controversy that resulted in unrequested tents arriving in Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Manitoba in May. The company that supplied the tents was connected to Minister Anand's COVID-19 Supply Council appointee, Cathy Bennett, who resigned last month after news of her...

 

 

 

THOMPSON - After the recent resignation of a member of the federal government's COVID-19 Supply Council in the wake of a conflict of interest controversy, all parties supported the NDP's bid to have the Ministers of Indigenous Services and Public Service and Procurement to come to committee to answer growing questions on corporate interest.