3.  The Manitoba Legislative Building is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba! It is located on 450 Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  Each province/territory of Canada has a Legislative building in its capital city. (For example one in Edmonton for Alberta, and one in Victoria for British Columbia)

4.  Inside the amazing and spectacular Manitoba Legislature building, 57 elected members work to represent the citizens of our province.  These people are called MLA’s which is short for Member of the Legislative Assembly.  They are elected members which means the people vote for them.

5.  The citizens of the province of Manitoba are going to the polls on October 4 th, 2011! The people are voting in the 40 th Provincial election held in the province. Each and every vote will count and will be used to help each riding or constituency vote in an MLA.

6.  Each elected MLA in the province is responsible for the people in that area and the issues affecting the people in reside in that area.  The riding of Oakbank is part of the constituency of St. Paul. Currently, the MLA of the riding is Ron Schuler of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

7.  You can vote in an election if you: -are a Canadian citizen -are 18 years of age on or before election day -have resided/lived in Manitoba for at least 6 months immediately before election day

8.  A political party is a group of people who share similar political ideas and have similar political goals.  There are many political parties found in the Province of Manitoba including: The Green Party of Manitoba, The New Democratic Party of Manitoba, The Communist Party of Manitoba, Manitoba Liberal Party, and the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

9. Greg Selinger-New Democratic Party of Manitoba Jon Gerard- Manitoba Liberal Party Hugh McFayden- Progressive Conservative Party Of Manitoba