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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;
Source: HighBeam Research, Manitoba.(Report)