Manitoba PCs want NDP to disclose extent of funding cuts to non-profit organizations

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Peggy

Manitoba’s Opposition Progressive Conservatives want the NDP government to disclose the extent of funding cuts to non-profit organizations affected by a federal decision to ratchet back support for job training and employment assistance.

Documents obtained by the PCs through a freedom-of-information request show the province informed several non-profit organizations in June their funding will be cut and provincial bridge funding will flow until the end of September.

The organizations include Samaritan House Ministries, which serves unhoused people in Brandon, and Winnipeg’s Reaching E-Quality Employment Services.

Other organizations were told their funding would continue.

Interim PC Leader Wayne Ewasko said Tuesday he wants to know which organizations are still receiving provincial funding.

“What we’ve asked is who’s getting the status quo, who’s been reduced, or who’s been cut in its entirety,” Ewasko said following question period at the Manitoba Legislature.

In the letters sent in June, the province told the non-profit organizations $20 million in federal funding has been cut back.

During question period, deputy premier Uzoma Asagwara said the NDP government is speaking to the non-profit organizations to see what funding gaps exist as a result of the federal cuts.

The province decried those cuts in a June press release.