Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Address the per capita funding discrepancy between regions
• Hire more nurse aides in rural areas to prevent burnout among professionals who are on-call 7 days a week
• Register Licensed Practical Nurses to address the shortage of Registered Nurses in northern areas
• Promote the educational assistance programs that are already in place—we don't know what financial help exists
• Measure/get creative/encourage youth to further their education
• Improve communication
• Serve Aboriginals in their own language and take into account their culture
• Serve Francophones in their own language
• Ensure the equality of salaries among all professionals
• Form partnerships and task forces
• Initiate "Candy Striper" programs
• Pay for student education in exchange for community service
• Improve morale of staff/personnel
• Focus on providing good quality of life and good compensation programs in northern areas and in rural Manitoba in general

Northern Development

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Leaders at local levels are involved in decisions
• First Nations are being trained and involved
• Private and public partnerships are continuing to grow

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Manitoba Hydro should partner with First Nations, including providing training to First Nations
• Continue to dialogue starting at the grassroots community level up to other levels of government

Funding New Products (like eco-tourism)

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Rural Economic Development Initiative
• Community Futures Development Corporations
• Marketing funding

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Provide grants to assist in product development
• Allow easier access to funding sources
• Develop partnerships with First Nations and others in rural and remote communities
• Initiate programs to finance the new projects

Youth and Youth Retention

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Acknowledging that there are a significant number of issues involving youth in rural Manitoba that need to be examined
• Discussing the issues with youth
• Listening to youth
• Programs that unify youth across Canada
• There are more Youth loan programs directed to support youth who would like to start a small business

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Increase communication between organizations so that everyone knows what the other is doing
• Increase communication among educators, families and health care providers
• Inform youth of programs and services directed at them
• Keep youth involved in community activities
• Develop new community leaders
• Find ways to keep youth in rural Manitoba. Address the risk of youth not coming back
• Improve educational opportunities
• Create an environment that keeps youth interested and involved in what is going on in the community
• Ensure that employment AND training are available to the youth
• Include youth in all aspects of the community: recreational, educational, political, planning
• Recognize that although some communities are young (predominantly composed of citizens under the age of 35), they still have a problem to keep the youth interested in living in rural Manitoba
• Recognize that communities are facing a crisis in that they are going to die without the youth
• Provide an infrastructure for youth (e.g., educational facilities, recreational facilities, etc.)
• Develop post-secondary opportunities for the 18–25 year-old people in rural communities
• Ensure that there are jobs available within the community—although youth have to go away to get educated, they want to come back
• Seize the opportunities that technology provides. Now, you can work from anywhere—you don't have to be in a large urban centre
• Create an action plan to connect communities to the Internet (where the Internet connection needs to be dependable and the price to connect affordable)
• Find ways to approach the lost generation of kids who are dropping out of school, getting into trouble with the law, committing suicide, experiencing lack of opportunities and drugs/alcohol addictions

What Kind of Rural Manitoba Do We Want and How Are We Going to Achieve It?

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• n/a

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Put rural Manitoba on the forefront
• Address that there is discrimination outside of cities and promote anti-racist education in rural and north
• Expand the rural population
• Diversify our economy - create equitable resources - introduce value-added stabilization
• Take risks and take initiative
• Offer reasons and clearly articulate the needs of the entire province
• Allow First Nations community to take over health care in Norway House area
• Encourage greater communication with stakeholders in all areas
• Provide funding to other Aboriginal groups, not just First Nations
• Create a successful rural infrastructure by first determining the best use of communities' resources
• Establish monitoring processes to determine if mandates and objectives are met
• Reduce administration
• Decentralize government operations and promote transparency
• Provide credibility and power by electing community development officials
• Respect the needs of communities and in partnership, work with them towards achieving goals that they have determined

Addressing Issues of First Nation and Other Aboriginal Communities, including rights, accountability, transparency and quality of roads

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Continually debating, monitoring and assessing the utilization of funds, where the funds are going, who is using them and how they are being distributed
• Quality agreements, with clear language that indicates the problems that are to be addressed
• Allow for latitude in the education system, but ensure accountability
• Continue to demand transparency and educate communities on sound social policy

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Stop the use of toll fees and user fees
• Register visitors on lakes
• Provide adequate resources for infrastructure and promote tourism in the north
• Improve road conditions—this is a must!
• Ensure that natural resources and human resources are used properly
• Plan for future climate changes that will affect roads in winter

Fostering Strategic Partnerships

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Canadian Rural Partnership (A Government of Canada initiative led by the Rural Secretariat)
• There are many honest attempts at strategic partnerships (although many are misdirected)

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Bring all partners to the same table at the same time
• Change program delivery
• Promote northern issues—they are not heard of enough
• Increase communication among different levels of government
• Share information on how and why money is spent on certain partnerships (with reference to the Canadian Rural Partnership Pilot Projects Initiative, there is money spent on partnership with little to no reporting to date on what outcomes the partnership accomplished)
• Create more partnerships with all levels of government at the community level
• View decisions made from outside the community (by the federal and provincial governments). This can serve to ensure that decisions are always made in consultation with communities
• Increase the sharing of information among all levels of government
• Improve communication among government departments. Seeing that currently departments, even sections within the same department, do not cooperate with each other, how can they effectively partner with communities?
• Acknowledge strategic partnerships and share successes with all partners. Currently, it feels too much like a contract - all parties have their own agendas and want all the glory/profile and don't want to acknowledge the contributions of every partner
• Ensure that the true winner is the community, by a win-win approach, by working together
• Work with private sector
• Change the way we look at partnerships and how we deliver programs and services (same size does not fit all)
• Address the fact that services are centralized
• Allow the community to be the delivery agency
• Separate issues into northern and rural because they are not the same

Quality of Life and Continuing Education for Student and Adults

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Work experience programs in the school
• Co-operative education program (e.g., in community colleges, employers have the opportunity for recruitment and students get the opportunity to learn and explore different fields of work)

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Help students with the financial aspect of training in return for a certain amount of years of community service (a real legal commitment)
• Hire additional nurses, teachers, day care workers, etc
• Identify the items that contribute to the "quality of life" and make a plan to improve/add the missing elements
• Encourage more work experience programs that are accredited, well-oriented to the communities' needs and guide the students before, during and after the program (at high school level)
• Educate/provide trained guidance teachers and get parents, employers and the community involved
• Mentorship programs
• Improve the conditions to keep the professionals in rural Manitoba
• Quality of life, including decent education, and health and recreational services
• Provide interest-free loans for education
• Find the elements that attract and keep professionals in rural and remote communities. These will vary in each community, but must be addressed and developed
• Consider not only the professional's needs but those of his or her family (including wife or husband, and kids)
• Provide financial resources to rural communities to help them develop, improve or add the missing elements of the "quality of life" that the professionals are looking for

Economic Development and Rural Manitoba

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• There is more communication
• There is increased partnerships between communities

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Sustainable funding for economic development
• Working in regional groups, use of roundtables
• Look at creative options for funding projects
• Educate local government as to economic development responsibilities it has towards the community
• Provide more local economic development structures in the community
• Provide some form of municipal, provincial and federal funding structure for economic development (with community commitment) at community level
• Share success stories; peer-to-peer education
• Allocate human resources at the local level to be effective; with just volunteers the progress is slow

Canadian Heritage Education

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Making Internet and information available
• Heritage signs—honouring historic sites (e.g., road and highway signs on museum locations)

Ways we could improve on this issue:  

• Use an Internet site so that Canadians of all ages can connect with each other
• Provide personnel to help those without the knowledge of how to work on the Internet

A Global Marketplace from Home

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Focussing government moneys to help facilitate global marketplace
• Promoting the right things (ie., Connecting Canadians, the Government of Canada's vision and plan to make Canada the most connected country in the world)

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Support and understand the emotional, intellectual and moral attributes of living together in communities
• Explore and provide clear reasons on why a community would want to connect to the global marketplace. What does that mean to a community and citizens in rural Manitoba? How can we apply it to issues that really matter, like health care, education, etc
• Provide high-speed Internet
• Provide financial assistance to implement high-speed access
• Look into the future and plan for the future now
• Ensure sustainability
• Be sensitive to rural and remote issues
• Communication technology needs to be affordable to contribute to a "home based" business
• Promote Cottage industries, small and medium businesses
• Provide more support in terms of education on the opportunities for cottage industries, and small- to medium-sized businesses
• Recognize the potential impact of technology and do some strategic planning for your community based on these inevitable changes. [E.g., Help desks]; IT jobs are portable skills and therefore one can secure employment from home (and your employer can be anywhere). Traditional jobs can be done at home (ie., administrative assistant). Some communities are already looking 20 years down the road and making changes now for the next generation

Quality of Health Care

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Regional Health Authorities response is more reflective of the communities' needs, including more beds, or a purchase of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), etc

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Improve accessibility to health care
• Ensure total community co-operation between doctors and communities
• Establish a medical man-power committee
• Address the waiting time at doctors' offices—currently even if an appointment is made, you still have to wait two hours
• Treat doctors with respect; don't take them for granted. Make them feel accepted as part of the community, not outsiders
• Give nurses full-time status. Currently they seem to have a part-time status, but are always working full-time with no benefits

Roads

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• n/a

Ways we could improve on this issue:

Access to Small Business Financing

Things we are doing right on this issue:

• Community Futures Development Corporations, Community Development Corporations, Community Loan Programs

Ways we could improve on this issue:

• Expand on above programs
• Compile and communicate funding sources to local entrepreneurs and to financial institutions

Following the discussions of the agenda issues (at the concurrent sessions), the participants were asked to identify common threads and concerns that reappeared in the discussions. The four major threads that the participants identified were:

• Community development (Made in Manitoba values and principles that would improve the role of governments in community development)
• Relationship between Aboriginal communities and other communities in rural Manitoba
• A sense of ownership in rural Manitoba (moving from "them" to "we")
• Establish ways to continue the dialogue for action

During in-depth discussions, the participants were asked to respond to these four threads, providing their ideas for ways to improve communication with regard to the role of governments in community development.

A) Leadership

What are the ways to improve communication about the role of governments in developing, nurturing and supporting leadership in community?

• Follow through with planned government initiatives
• Follow-up "paper" with concrete visible actions
• Ensure that leaders (all levels) are present in communities for information sessions and feedback
• Make new technology available to all citizens
• "Premiers' Pipeline" idea is a great one (note: this is the Web site for the youth to discuss issues with the Premier of Manitoba)

What are the ways to improve the role of governments in developing, nurturing and supporting community development?

• Organize an appreciation night sponsored by three levels of governments for recognition of community leaders
• Encourage elected officials to be more visible in communities
• Provide means and/or assistance for communicating successes and recognizing local leadership
• Ensure local visibility of elected officials (all levels) to create opportunities that would permit feedback and dialogue
• Create and encourage real partnerships in order to assure that "paper report" recommendations are followed up with concrete actions
• Ensure that new and existing technologies are available and used more efficiently
• Provide training programs to develop skills
• Federal and provincial government leaders/representatives should behave more like role models
• Provide financial support for local community development organizations
• Encourage all government levels to facilitate seed money and new programs
• Support a ‘one stop government shop' - meaning a place where citizens could go to get services from any and all levels of government
• Create new programs
• Provide staff support and financial support and other assistance necessary
• Give tools to local communities to develop local solutions. Don't impose solutions—each community will develop a solution that "fits" them
• Consider regional, cultural (4 seasons) and geographical diversity, and target activities appropriately

What are the Made in Manitoba or "home grown" principles on the role of governments in developing, nurturing and supporting leadership for community development?

• Get it across to urban populations that we are important to them (agriculture, forestry, mining, value of the land)
• Ensure quality of life—fresh air, safety, open spaces
• Equitable and fair leadership base to develop; cooperation amongst communities
• Ensure that when a problem arises it is solved; don't off-load responsibilities (e.g., flood, agriculture crisis)

What are the ways to continue the dialogue for action in developing, nurturing and supporting leadership for community development?

• Focus the dialogue more on solutions than problems with definite outcomes
• Ensure stronger political presence in the discussion
• Ensure that the dialogue is more inclusive of youth as they are the future leaders
• The final presentation of the document should not look like a bureaucratic initiative; instead it should look like it is initiated by the "people" who participated
• Ensure more regular communications using e-mail, newsletters, surveys

B) Rural Infrastructure

What are the ways to improve communication on the role of governments in rural infrastructure?

• Address concerns about the high cost of phone and Internet access
• Increase the number of public access sites (post offices with trained helpers and consumer information services)
• Use local papers to tell success stories, not just the Globe and Mail
• Encourage dialogue with your Member of Parliament
• Ensure that CBC radio and television is healthily funded and in communities
• Continue with this kind of meeting more than once a year to ensure better planning and success (report to youth, seniors, farmers, small businesses, councils and everyone involved)
• Educate seniors with regard to increased services and benefits
• Demand that taxes collected for petrol be used for highway maintenance
• Ensure that decisions about rural direction are made by the 30% of Canadians that live in rural areas, not by the majority of Canadians who live in urban areas
• Help rural people see that they can decide - that will encourage and empower them
• Cut the red tape and get it done!

What are the ways to improve the role of governments in rural infrastructure?

• Improve communication among all levels of government (starting at the grassroots), with the intention of improving services, utilizing of resources and management of personnel
• Ensure that the government is aware of its impact on the rural area and the contribution that the rural area makes to Canada
• Ask the government to improve real physical infrastructure (e.g., roads, Internet access, information systems)
• Ensure that the government learns to better pool resources
• Ensure that the government acts on results of surveys and forums such as this one and not their own strategies
• Ensure that all levels of government design programs to account for regional differences
• Ensure that the government realizes that the rural way of life is very important to the structure of Canada
• Programs can be frustrating to the rural way of life. Groups that apply for programs are usually volunteer based. Program applications requiring detailed information can be time consuming in order to complete adequately. These two factors can be a frustrating combination when resources and time are scarce
• Acknowledge that rural Canadians are stewards of much of Canadian real estate and therefore have greater impact than their numbers would suggest to the city dweller
• Listen, really listen, value and respect the opinions of everyone in the community at the grassroots to understand rural living and to look at the overall impact that all decisions have on a community/rural area
• Consider distances in the rural areas when thinking of access programs

What are the Made in Manitoba or "home grown" principles that could improve in the role of government in rural infrastructure?

• Recognize and renumerate the volunteer sector in rural Manitoba (as it enhances our quality of life)
• Understand and learn from success achieved through cooperation. Recognize that we have communities that have to work together to survive
• Understand that rural communities need government assistance but not government interference in our way of life
• Keep in mind that the current per capital investments in infrastructure are really very inadequate for rural needs
• Understand that "rural" does not end after Ottawa
• Provide professional facilitators (like those provided through the round table program) to help draw ideas and help us put them into a workable solution
• Celebrate the successes by actually determining the needs demographically (based on the needs of the community) and providing the necessary resources (financial and human resources)
• Have government provide transparency as well as demand accountability for funding dollars

What are the ways to continue the dialogue about the role of governments regarding rural infrastructure?

• Plan more developmental workshops
• Create an advisory committee
• Stay informed
• Include youth in workshops
• Hold workshops in smaller rural communities
• Get a list of entire Rural Team, including a listing of their skills and phone numbers, and e-mail them to keep in contact
• Hold more annual meetings
• Ensure that MPs follow up on what has been discussed at the workshop and keep track of any progress
• Hold more grassroots meetings where people have a chance to express their views and concerns
• Provide a contact person in the community and governments
• Organize a follow-up to this meeting—it can't end here
• Distribute brochures and pamphlets perhaps with a mail-in, tear-off card to get the public's reaction
• Organize whole community discussion (open house for the whole community)
• Help ensure that community members are confident that their views and opinions are respected

C) Health

What are the ways to improve communication on the role of governments with respect to health care?

• Ensure action and follow-up on recommendations provided, or people will lose interest and feel the workshops are a waste of time
• Develop a plan of action and follow through
• Encourage government to keep small hospitals open
• Concerned with the new action plans that government has come out with when communities are having trouble working within the existing structures
• Remind government of the importance of community hospitals and need to be flexible
• Ensure good communication (e.g., contact person available to all levels of government and trusted by all sides)
• Set up local advisory committees to plan with government. Do not let such efforts die! Follow through, no matter what, even if plan is discarded, explain why it has been as a follow-up
• Ensure accessibility, determine who within one level of government would speak to another level of government. Have a contact person for difficult jurisdictional issues that can liaise between all jurisdictions to provide clear information to the public (thereby making the process more accessible to local citizens)
• Simplify information that government supplies. Keep communication understandable
• Improve communications and publicize defining roles or responsibilities of each level of government and what each government is prepared to do for citizens
• Don't rely solely on the Internet as a source of information on the government's activities. Instead, be aware that not everybody has or wants access to the internet
• Use advertisements (30-second slots) on TV

What are the ways to improve the role of governments in building healthy communities?

• Healthy communities include youth groups, heritage, recreation, library, arts, cultural centre and churches
• Identify the stakeholders
• Brainstorm the list of available individuals
• Include local community individuals on rural town councils
• Educate municipal leaders
• Guide and lead those who provide services
• Ensure networking, co-operation, co-ordination
• Improve library service (there are municipalities who haven't got a library in their community. There should exist a Manitoba-wide library card)
• Ensure decent services (assuming water, roads, etc. are okay) have decent recreation, health and education services in place for family to use
• Support knowledge of Canadian heritage so that young people know where they come from

What are the ways to continue the dialogue on building healthy communities?

• Improve understanding of communities, program-based
• Ensure networking with communities takes place between communities and all levels of government, including with the capital cities
• Provide user-friendly communication services
• Visit rural areas that are further than ones just outside of urban centres—target small communities, including those in northern and remote areas
• Set up regional meetings on topics pertaining to community concerns
• Ensure that teams of government-elected representatives visit small towns and attend town hall meetings

How will the "Made in Manitoba" principles improve building healthy communities?

• A sense of family (it is very important to have local jobs available for children and grandchildren, so that they are not forced to live in another province to obtain work)
• Concern for neighbours (pioneer a tradition to care for them when necessary)
• Communities may or may not work cooperatively, but usually the tradition has been "me against the world"
• Ensure that government explores the community values (it helps if government personnel actually live in and are familiar with community and its values)
• Provide a sense of inclusion (people want to be included in what is going on, and know what is happening and why)
• Taxpayer needs to have the feeling that they are respected
• Note that the sense of cooperation found in early days is disappearing
• Advertise what Manitoba has to offer
• Sell/promote our successes
• Read more about Manitoba resources
• Recognize our young artists throughout the province
• Address the fact that a lot of Manitobans are leaving Manitoba. Need to stop young Manitobans from moving to other provinces in search for opportunities
• Repair the road system
• Grain elevators being closed is a concern for communities
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ANNEX 1: The Open Space Tool *

What is it?

An approach to large meetings that promote creative thinking and gets everyone participating.

Why should I use it?

• To get new and fresh ideas on an old program.
• To hear what your partners and clients have to say and immediately commit to them that you are going to consider their suggestions or act on them right away.

How can this tool help?

This tool can help you and your teams get away from old thinking and old ideas. Approach it with an open and receptive mind.

How does it work?
Planning
Set up a planning committee and be as inclusive as possible in inviting people who might contribute to developing new ideas. Tell people why you are consulting them and the broad subject area to be covered, and provide background material in advance. Use a facilitator.

Doing
Get the whole group to brainstorm on subjects related to your team's work, identifying issues and problems that they feel need to be addressed. The number of issues identified will determine the number of dialogue groups to choose from in the "marketplace". Then, post a list of issues from each dialogue group's time slot. Let participants choose which dialogue group they want to attend. After the participants break up into dialogue groups, each group decides which of the issues identified for that time slot it will address, and comes up with five solutions to the issue they have selected. Have one member of each group capture these ideas electronically. After the dialogues, invite everyone back to the main room for the closing plenary.

Following up
Capture recommendations electronically as the day progresses so that you can give people a complete draft document at the end of the session. This is the opportunity for the leadership to commit to action based on the suggestions received. If they cannot do this, there must be a commitment to review the recommendations and get back to participants with an action plan.

What resources do I need?
A planning committee, a facilitator, a large room for the plenary, additional meeting rooms, flip charts, portable computers and note-takers. You will need about one day for the process, although the time needed depends on the complexity of the issues.

What is the leadership edge?
Because there are no leaders in the room, you tap the leadership potential of everyone present while you build a collective, consensus-based agenda.

* Source: "Tools from Leadership and Learning" manual.

ANNEX 2: List of Manitoba Rural Team Members

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Darell M. Pack	Rural Secretariat 5th Floor 303 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3G7 Phone: 204 984-6510 Fax: 204 983-8357 E-mail: PackD@agr.gc.ca
Richard Lavergne	Communications Branch 4th Floor 303 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3G7 Phone: 204 983-4456 Fax: 204 983-4583 E-mail: LavergneR@agr.gc.ca
Lauraine Watson	Communications Branch 4th Floor 303 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3G7 Phone: 204 984-5345 Fax: 204 983-4583 E-mail: WatsonLA.Midwest.WINNIPEG
Ute Holweger	Rural Development Planning Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) 2nd Floor 303 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3G7 Phone: 204 983-2241 Fax: 204 983-2178 E-mail: HolwegerU@agr.gc.ca
Jim Tokarchuk	Rural Development Planning Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) 2nd Floor 303 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3G7 Phone: 204 984-3695 Fax: 204 983-2178 E-mail: TokarchukJ@agr.gc.ca
Dan Wuerch	Market and Industry Services Branch (MISB) 4th Floor 303 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3G7 Phone: 204 984-4230 Fax: 204983-8849 E-mail: WuerchD@agr.gc.ca
Canada Business Service Centre
Daria Gawronsky	Room 250, 240 Graham Avenue P.O. Box 2609 Winnipeg, MB R3C 4B3 Phone: 204 983-4782 Fax: 204 983-3852 E-mail: Gawronsky.Daria@cbsc.ic.gc.ca
Canada Customs and Revenue Agency
Mike Styre	269 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3G 1B3 Phone: 204 983-3758 Fax: 204 983-8849 E-mail: Mike.Styre@ccra-adrc.gc.ca OR dawn.tucker@ccra-adrc.gc.ca
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Ken Taylor	Manager of Assisted Housing Canada P.O. Box 964, 10 Fort Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 2V2 Phone: 204 983-5617 Fax: 204 984-4083 E-mail: ktaylor@cmhc-schl.gc.ca
Canadian Heritage
Diane Leclercq	P.O. Box 2160 2nd Floor 275 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 3R5 Phone: 204 983-7908 Fax: 204 983-5365 E-mail: diane_leclercq@pch.gc.ca
Canadian Radio-Television and Tele-communications Commission (CRTC)
Gary Krushen	Director, Midwest Region Suite 1810, 275 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 2B3 Phone: 204 983-6599 Fax: 204 983-6317 E-mail: gary.krushen@crtc.gc.ca
Canadian Wheat Board (The)
Jim Pietryk	Industry and Government Relations 423 Main Street P.O. Box 816, Station M Winnipeg, MB R3C 2P5 Phone: 204 983-8951 Fax: 204 983-4678 E-mail: jim_pietryk@cwb.ca
Community Futures Partners of Manitoba
Maurice Bouvier	127 - 167 Lombard Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T6 Phone: 204 983-2905 Fax: 204 956-9363 E-mail: cfpminc@mb.sympatico.ca
Department of Education and Training
Mike Davies	Rural North Employment Centres Department of Education and Training Unit 100-237 Manitoba Avenue Selkirk, MB R1A 0Y4 Phone: 204 785-5283 Fax: 204 785-5284 E-mail: mdavies@gov.mb.ca
Environment Canada
Susan Eros	Environmental Conservation Branch Suite 150223 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 4W2 Phone: 204 984-2450 Fax: 204 983-5248 E-mail: Susan.Eros@ec.gc.ca
Rick Slasor	Suite 150, 123 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 4W2 Phone: 204 983-7048 Fax: 204 983-0964 E-mail: Rick.Slasor@ec.gc.ca
Farm Credit Canada
Gordon Earl	401B North Railway Street Morden, MB R6M 1F8 Phone: 204 822-4461 Fax: 204 822-4512 E-mail: gordon.earl@sca-fcc.ca
Armand Leclerc	Unit D-3, 284 Reimer Avenue Box 21650 Steinbach, MB R5G 1B3 Phone: 204 326-9400 Fax: 204 346-6373 E-mail: armand.leclerc@fcc-sca.ca
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Freshwater Institute
Peter Thompson	Policy and Economics Division 501 University Crescent Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N6 Phone: 519 3832844 Fax: 204 984-2402 E-mail: thompsonp@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Government of Manitoba
Christine Burton	Community Economic Development Committee of Cabinet 648255 Carleton Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 3H8 Phone: 204 945-8275 Fax: 204 945-8229 E-mail: chburton@gov.mb.ca
Health Canada
Pat Hope	Health Promotion and Programs Branch Suite 420, 391 York Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 0P4 Phone: 204 983-6574 Fax: 204 983-8674 E-mail: Pat_Hope@hc-sc.gc.ca
Larry Flynn	Health Promotion and Programs Branch Suite 420, 391 York Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 0P4 Phone: 204 983-0744 Fax: 204 983-8674 E-mail: Larry_Flynn@HC-SC.gc.ca
Human Resources Development Canada
Bruce St. Louis	HRDC - Brandon Human Resource Centres Suite 100, 1039 Princess avenue Brandon, MB R7A 6E2 Phone: 204 726-7755 Fax: 204 726-7744 E-mail: bruce.stlouis@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
Ian Cumming	HRDC, Manitoba Region 11th Floor, 260 Graham Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 0J8 Phone: 204 9832755 Fax: 204 984-2640 E-mail: ian.cumming@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
Lee Roth	Human Resource Centre 158 Stephen Street Morden, MB R6M 1T3 Phone: 204 822-2254 Fax: 204 822-6333 E-mail: lee.roth@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Anna Fontaine	Economic Development Manitoba Region 9th Floor, 275 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 3A3 Phone: 204 983-2145 Fax: 204 983-3629 E-mail: fontainea@inac.gc.ca
Industry Canada
Melody Myers	Information Highway Advisor Regional Information Highway Branch Prairie and Northwest/Territories Region 4th Floor, 400 St. Mary Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 4K5 Phone: 204 983-7782 Fax: 204 983-3182 E-mail: myers.melody@ic.gc.ca
Al Streuber	Senior Analyst 4th Floor, 400 St. Mary Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 4K5 Phone: 204 983-6871 Fax: 204 984-4329 E-mail: streuber.al@ic.gc.ca
Justice Canada
Dina Juras	National Crime Prevention Centre NCPC MB/SK Regional Office 601-310 Broadway Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 0S6 Phone: 204 984-5925 Fax: 204 984-4882 E-mail: djuras@justice.gc.ca
Manitoba Federal Council
Michel Lagace	100 - 344 Edmonton Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 2L4 Phone: 204 984-6815 Fax: 204 984-0108 E-mail: michel.lagace@deo.gc.ca
Manitoba Intergovernmental Affairs
Rob Roe	607-800 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3G 0N4 Phone: 204 945-7031 Fax: 204 945-2591 E-mail: Rroe@gov.mb.ca
National Resources Canada
Steve Price	Canada Forestry Service Northern Forestry Centre 5320, 122nd Street Edmonton, AB T6H 3S5 Phone: 403 435-7206 Fax: 403 435-7356 E-mail: sprice@nrcan.gc.ca
Nature Conservancy Canada
Gene Fortney	Director of Land Protection, Manitoba Manitoba Office 298 Garry Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1H3 Phone: 204 942-6156 Fax: 204 943-2261 E-mail: genef@natureconservacy.ca
Parks Canada
Linda Seyers	MB Field Unit Forks National Historic Site B320-25 Forks Market Road Winnipeg, MB R3C 4S8 Phone: 204 983-2918 Fax: 204 983-2221 E-mail: linda_seyers@pch.gc.ca
Western Economic Diversification Canada
Dale Johnston	P.O. Box 777, Cargill Building 712, 240 Graham Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 2L4 Phone: 204 983-2124 Fax: 204 984-0360 E-mail: Dale.Johnston@wd.gc.ca
Don Cardinell	P.O. Box 777, Cargill Building 712, 240 Graham Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 2L4 Phone: 204 983-4249 Fax: 204 9832280 E-mail: Don.Cardinell@wd.gc.ca
Women's Enterprise Centre
Pat Sargeant	Room 130, 240 Graham Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 0J7 Phone: 204 9882873 Fax: 204 9882871 E-mail: pat_sargeant@womentcen.mb.ca

 

Date Modified: 2002-11-13

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