Last Friday Conservative MLAs Myrna Driedger and Dennis Smook visited Thompson to start a program of getting input from northern Manitobans.   Driedger says there needs to be a whole northern strategy that looks at various aspects to the north.  She says health care is certainly one, infrastructure, mining, tourism, whether its economic development, jobs in the economy, what can they do in all those levels to bring it all together so they have a really strong northern vision but everything ties together.

Other Conservative MLAs and their leader Brian Pallister will visit northern communities in the coming weeks and months to hear about northern concerns.