After vowing to help tear down economic barriers in Canada, the Manitoba government has returned to building fresh ones at home.
On Sept. 16, 2025, Premier Wab Kinew announced what he called a “landmark jobs agreement” with the Manitoba Building Trades, an umbrella group of construction unions. The province, he said, would build four new schools: two in Winnipeg, one in West St. Paul and one in Brandon, under a new framework meant to “create good, family-supporting jobs.”
Behind that easy phrase sits a new set of rules.