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The Manitoba Liberal Party has picked the pandemics largest spike in the province to die on a baffling mole hill.

Instead of granting leave on Monday to allow debate on Bill 44, which would make amendments to the Employment Standards Code and allow for protection of those seeking paid sick leave, party leader Dougald Lamont has decided to quibble over the province not funding further leave, saying the province is taking credit for the federal governments work while contributing nothing.

Had they been able to proceed on Monday with debate, the bill could have potentially been pushed all the way through and Manitobans could apply for the federal Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit without questioning whether or not they will have a job when they come back from leave.

Now they must wait until the debate on the throne speech is complete to proceed with debates on other bills.

On Tuesday, Lamont was unrelenting in his viewing, casting the bill as just a few adjustments on dismissals. If youre worried about your job, it is not near as simple.

There are an untold number of people who are sitting there having to weigh whether or not to go into work because they have the sniffles. Tell themselves its just a cold and to ignore symptoms or lose a paycheque. If theyre struggling to make ends meet, as more than 50% of Manitobans are, I can guarantee you those symptoms are being shrugged off way more than they should be. If theyre working minimum wage at a big box store, there is always a sense of replaceability.

While the province was unable to produce numbers through contact tracing to show how often COVID was being passed on at work or people were being exposed to it, both Premier Brian Pallister and Provincial Chief Public Health Officer Brent Roussin spoke to how big the issue has become on Monday.

Going to work sick is putting way too many people at risk of catching the virus. We are even seeing this in health care facilities where people are not disclosing symptoms to nurses and doctors. The province disclosed over the weekend how a surgical team has been sidelined for two weeks because of this behaviour while nurses and other staff are being put in unnecessarily at risk due to these decisions.

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