The NDP has broken their promise to make the results of two recent justice reviews public. 

Progressive Conservative Justice Critic Gerald Hawranik says when the NDP announced an operational review of the East St. Paul Police Department and a review of the province’s policy on appointing independent prosecutors, they indicated the results would be made public, “upon their completion”.

But in a release yesterday, Justice Minister Dave Chomiak flip-flopped, indicating instead the results won’t be made public for a “few weeks”.

Hawranik said conducting reviews into what went wrong is pointless unless the NDP is prepared to share with the public exactly what went wrong and why.

“This case was marred with mistakes and secrecy,” Hawranik said. “Manitobans deserve the know the full and unadulterated results of these reviews into what went wrong. It will give them a clear picture of the severe problems that exist in the NDP’s justice system.”

Hawranik said it’s important in order to begin to restore confidence in the justice system.

“It’s not surprising the NDP is putting their own image before the public’s right to know the whole truth,” Hawranik said. “Failing to release the results immediately as originally promised proves the NDP are more concerned with covering their tracks than with admitting their many shortcomings to Manitobans and planning to move past them.”