{"id":74490,"date":"2016-04-19T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=74490"},"modified":"2025-01-08T02:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T07:54:30","slug":"nasty-campaign-voters-go-polls-manitoba-provincial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/19\/nasty-campaign-voters-go-polls-manitoba-provincial-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty campaign over as voters go to the polls in Manitoba provincial election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WINNIPEG \u2013 A testy provincial election campaign is over as Manitobans head to the polls today to elect their next government.<\/p>\n

The five-week battle for the hearts and minds of voters often seemed nasty and personal.<\/p>\n

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Last week, NDP Leader Greg Selinger called Tory Leader Brian Pallister \u201chomophobic\u201d for voting against a law in 2013 that requires schools to allow gay-straight alliances set up by students.<\/p>\n

Pallister, who owns a vacation home in Costa Rica, was also on the defensive in recent days over the amount of time he has spent there, and the NDP has continued to suggest he has been inconsistent on his holdings in the Central American country.<\/p>\n

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Even before the campaign started, Selinger was accused of using non-political civil servants for a pre-election NDP announcement \u2013 the third time his government had been accused of using government resources for partisan purposes.<\/p>\n

At the final leaders\u2019 debate, Pallister suggested the province was being run by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and assured people that would change if his party took power.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it wasn\u2019t just the politicians fighting. Liberal Leader Rana Bokhari was recorded telling a man seeking attention for his concerns about mental health services that the media wouldn\u2019t touch his story because they survive on government ads.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s common knowledge that people believe that that\u2019s the way the system works,\u201d she later said.<\/p>\n

And Selinger was interrupted at an election rally when a woman grabbed the microphone from him and accused Child and Family Services of taking away her children.<\/p>\n

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There were candidates who were called out for past indescretions. The Liberals dumped one who had pleaded guilty to assaulting a girlfriend in 2002 after Bokhari received information about new accusations in the matter.<\/p>\n

The Tories, however, stood by candidate Dr. Naseer Warraich after it was revealed his medical licence had been suspended for two years after he co-signed prescriptions for U.S. patients he had never seen.<\/p>\n

Policies were proposed and promises made, but the polls gave Pallister and his Conservative party the edge. Some believed the NDP were doomed from the moment in 2013 when they raised the provincial sales tax.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there was a deep-seated hope within the NDP that Manitobans would forgive him for increasing the PST,\u201d said Karine Levasseur, who teaches political science at the University of Manitoba.<\/p>\n

She said that hope hinged on Selinger being \u201cthe one person (people) can count on to ensure that health care is still going to operate the way it needs, that services are going to be delivered and they\u2019re not going to be cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t work at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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