Top 10 NDP election promises

Published in Winnipeg Sun, Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Top 10 NDP election promises

1. Add 700 more nurses and 100 new doctors over four years.
2. Build a mental health emergency room.
3. Establish a women's health centre at the Health Sciences Centre and open a women's and children's health clinic in South Winnipeg.
4. Hire 100 new cops and expand the team of Crown prosecutors.
5. Add 4,000 new apprenticeship training spots at colleges and universities around Manitoba.
6. Give the east side of Lake Winnipeg permanent protection through legislation.
7. Commit $40 million to begin negotiations for an east-west power grid.
8. Create 2,500 newly-funded child-care spaces, set up a $1-million training and recruitment fund and increase workers' salaries.
9. Eliminate the small business tax by 2010 and increase the education property tax credit to $700 by 2009.
10. Spend $60 million on community recreation centres.

It's been several months since this was published. How has our government progressed on their list?