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Manitoba Liberal Leader Rana Bokhari says last year's one per cent sales tax increase should be put in a separate fund for municipal roads and bridges.

WINNIPEG Manitoba Liberals say if they form the next government, they will dedicate all money from the provincial sales tax hike to municipal infrastructure.

Last years one per cent increase should be put in a separate fund for municipal roads and bridges,Liberal Leader Rana Bokhari said.

The money is currently being used for municipal and provincial projects, including flood-protection.

Some of the tax money collected last year was not spent and went into the governments general revenues, Bokhari said.

The Opposition Progressive Conservativeshave promised to rescind the tax hike if elected.

Bokhari said she recognizes the increased tax is here and wants to ensure its used for important infrastructure.

The Canadian Press, 2014

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October 15, 2014, 12:36 pm

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has paid tribute to the Liberal Party on the eve of its 70th birthday for helping to build modern Australia.

The party name was adopted on October 16, 1944, and two months later its organisational and constitutional framework was drawn up.

By May 1945, the party's ranks had grown from an initial meeting of 80 men and women in Canberra to 40,000 members.

Party founder Sir Robert Menzies had hoped it would change the "current of Australian politics".

"The Liberal Party hasn't just changed our politics. It has helped to build modern Australia," Mr Abbott said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Liberals fought their first election in 1946 and in 1947 won state government in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria.

In 1949 the Liberals, in coalition with the Country Party, were elected to national government.

Sir Robert Menzies went on to lead the party and the nation for 17 years, before retiring from politics in 1966.

Mr Abbott said the party stood for "the citizen over the official, the community over the state and the family over everything".

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