Employment Minister Kevin Chief has announced the Manitoba Government and Manitoba Public Insurance are improving access to adult driver education training in Northern Manitoba especially for Indigenous adults and those with low incomes who face barriers to employment. The program is now underway in The Pas and Thompson and will be launched in April through the Flin Flon Friendship Center Employment Assistance Program.

Chief says they want to help people in the north get that critical first job in their home community adding working together they are making it easier than ever to get a drivers license and that means more job opportunities start right away.  Chief adds early indications suggest the combination of job readiness programming and driver education training has been very successful.