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Selinger’s social activism in Manitoba shaped by family background

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Sep. 07, 2011
Most Manitobans are familiar with Greg Selinger the policy wonk – the NDP finance-minister-turned-premier who has three university degrees and can talk at length, sometimes tremendous length, about macroeconomic theory. But Mr. Selinger has another side – one of social activism shaped by a childhood in which his family battled poverty, separation and mental illness… “When you come out of a family background where there is a lone parent, you see issues of how you look after children, right? Or if you see issues where relatives are struggling with mental health issues, right, that develops a certain sensitivity to those issues”

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