Winnipeg Free Press Rural Manitoba Economic Development Corp. last of 'group of seven' agencies to be fully constituted Save to Read Later Margot Cathcart has been appointed to be the inaugural CEO of a new organization that is charged with co-ordinating economic development functions across the broad swath of rural Manitoba south of the 53rd parallel, but not including the capital region. Margot Cathcart has been appointed to be the inaugural CEO of a new organization that is charged with co-ordinating economic development functions across the broad swath of rural Manitoba south of the 53rd parallel, but not including the capital region.