Lake Winnipeg: Election Campaigns

Community Factors Dept: -- The most controversial subject in this campaign is whether a transmission line delivering hydroelectric power from the north to the south should be built on the east side of Lake Winnipeg or the west side of Lake Manitoba. The positions are entrenched and nobody will budge: The NDP will build west, the Progressive Conservatives east, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Here is a way out that the Business Council has advocated for several years: The government, whichever government, should ask a panel of three distinguished Manitobans to make a recommendation on where the line should be built, factoring in economic, environmental and community factors and election campaigns are divisive by nature. Party leaders often build themselves up by tearing down others camouflaging an obvious reality: They agree on far more than what divides them. The Business Council of Manitoba, a group of 75 CEOs of Manitoba leading companies, would like to offer four ideas that we believe could unite our political parties and pave the way for a better Manitoba. In a curious metaphor for Manitoba politics, the Liberals would put the line down the centre, underneath Lake Winnipeg. Whichever route prevails will leave many Manitobans feeling they lost the argument and they will be critics of this major project for a long time to come. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.