WINNIPEG Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister promised Thursday to ensure that any large capital projects in the future will be put to a public referendum before they can go ahead. Pallister s comments follow a report last month by former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall about billions of dollars in cost overruns on two megaprojects at Crown-owned Manitoba Hydro. Manitoba Hydro does, naturally, like to build dams, the Progressive Conservative premier said Thursday. If they want to build another one, then they have to ask (the public). Pallister said details of his plan, such as what kinds of projects might be included and what cost level would trigger a referendum, will be worked out later. He said a government-run casino if another one is ever proposed to add to the two existing ones could be another project subject to a public vote.
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