Manitoba.(Report)

On November 20, 2007 Lieutenant Governor John Harvard delivered the NDP government's eleventh Speech from the Throne since 1999, commencing the second session of the 39th Manitoba Legislature. The address conveyed a range of government commitments and proposals, including:

* A commitment to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions in Manitoba below 2000 levels over the next two years;

* New restrictions on household use of dishwashing detergents and lawn fertilizers to help protect lakes and rivers;

* Further capital investments for university campuses in Winnipeg and Brandon;

* An enhanced driver's licence to be offered beginning in the fall of 2008;

* Beginning the phase-out of the province's corporate capital tax and making the Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit 70 per cent refundable;

* Expansion of child-care spaces by another 2,500 over the next two years;