Flin Flon MLA Clarence Pettersen says the Manitoba budget is good for the province calling it a budget to grow our economy and grow jobs.  He says it includes more apprenticeship and training opportunities to help grow Manitoba’s workforce by 75 thousand by 2020 which is big and a five year plan to invest 5.5 billion dollars in core infrastructure to improve roads, bridges, flood work, municipal infrastructure and create thousands of jobs.

Pettersen adds in the constituency that includes continuing improvements on highways ten and six which are important transportation routes to the north, they continue to invest in heath care and education noting the upgrades to the emergency room in Flin Flon and at the Collegiate in Cranberry Portage and they continue to invest in the northern healthy foods initiative so food can be produced locally in remote communities.