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To listen to the full interview, please visit CBC Radio.

“You look at south Manitoba, and those are rich farmlands,” he says. “They’re large corporate farms, and they’re heavily capitalized with big investments into farm machinery… It’s not like the co-operative movement in the Saskatchewan politics of the CCF.”

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Adams said one of the reasons might be an electoral strategy to hold on to seats for future elections, and being a cabinet minister helps candidates in being re-elected. 

But he said cabinet is also built and shuffled to represent different parts of society.

To read the entire about the shuffle, please visit the link here with CBC Manitoba.

Adams said the usual leadership-race dynamic for the Manitoba PCs involves a competition between well-known urban and rural candidates.

Daudrich, the professor said, does not have the profile he would have expected from a candidate located outside Winnipeg.

“He’s not elected member. He doesn’t have a large constituency base. It’s not like he’s from Portage la Prairie,” Adams said. “He’s a successful business person up in Churchill, Manitoba.”

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Adams noted while NDP support has steadily increased in seat-rich Winnipeg, from 52 per cent in the election to the current 61 per cent, Tory support in the capital city is at 29 per cent — the same it has been during the last six months.

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Recent opinion polls suggest NDP support has grown since the party took 34 of the 57 legislature seats in the Oct. 3 election.

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Carla Compton won the Winnipeg seat in Tuxedo for the NDP on Tuesday night, beating Tory candidate Lawrence Pinsky by more than 600 votes.

It’s the first time the seat has flipped since its creation in 1981.

It was last held by former premier and PC party leader Heather Stefanson, who announced she would be stepping down after her party lost in last year’s provincial election and she narrowly reclaimed her seat.

Royce Koop at the University of Manitoba says he was surprised the blue constituency turned orange.

He says the Tories are in a difficult transition period.

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“In many ways, the NDP were elected as a rejection of the past administration and, secondly, concerns over things like health care,” said Christopher Adams, an adjunct professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

“So right now, the NDP is putting in these changes. They might be forgotten by the time the next election comes around, but I suspect there will be some blow back in some of the middle-class neighbourhoods of Winnipeg.”

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The party also promising to make life more affordable, including freezing hydro rates for a year, bringing in a temporary gas tax at the start of 2024 providing rebates on the purchase of electrical vehicles, and ending chronic homelessness.

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