{"id":52910,"date":"2015-06-24T20:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52910"},"modified":"2015-06-24T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:36:26","slug":"manitoba-tories-want-minister-to-resign-over-conflict-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/24\/manitoba-tories-want-minister-to-resign-over-conflict-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba Tories want minister to resign over conflict allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52984\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Brian_Pallister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-52984 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Brian_Pallister-e1435149377769.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Pallister (Jake Wright \/ Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"446\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Brian_Pallister-e1435149377769.jpg 446w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Brian_Pallister-e1435149377769-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Pallister (Jake Wright \/ Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; The Manitoba Tories are calling on the province&#8217;s infrastructure minister to resign over a controversial $5-million contract for flood fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Tory Leader Brian Pallister says Steve Ashton may have broken the rules for awarding contracts and calls it &#8220;an undeclared conflict&#8221; that has created doubts in the minds of many.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Greg Selinger is defending Ashton and says it is Pallister who may have something to hide.<\/p>\n<p>He says Pallister &#8220;seems to try to avoid responsibilities for the policies he wants to put forward,&#8221; suggesting the Tories would be in favour of privatizing day care and other social services.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous whistleblower complaint reported by the Winnipeg Free Press last week alleged Ashton pushed to have the contract to provide flood-fighting equipment awarded to a company that supplies water-filled tubes called Tiger Dams.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower alleged two officials from the company have been Ashton campaign contributors and Ashton wanted to bypass the normal requirement to allow other companies to bid on the work.<\/p>\n<p>Both Ashton and Selinger have denied the allegations. Last November, the contract was put up for open bidding. It has still not been awarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; The Manitoba Tories are calling on the province&#8217;s infrastructure minister to resign over a controversial $5-million contract for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":52984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}