Province cites 2.6 per cent drop in regulatory ‘red tape’

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The province says it’s making progress in modernizing its regulatory system and reducing red tape.

In releasing the government’s first regulatory accountability report today, Finance Minister Scott Fielding cited the following examples:

• reducing the number of reports and the reporting frequency for funded agencies in the Family Violence Prevention Program to quarterly from monthly, resulting in a reduction of 9,292 regulatory requirements while ensuring important information is still being reported;

• streamlining the program approval process for private vocational institutions, which resulted in decreasing processing time to two months from six to 12 months, and a reduction of 199 regulatory requirements;

• modernizing the emergency medical services protocols and procedures manual resulting in a reduction of 1,755 regulatory requirements while supporting the provision of effective, quality patient care;

• removing information requirements that were not being used for the Indigenous business registration form, which resulted in reducing the form’s number of pages to two from 10; and

• reducing the regulatory requirements in the gambling research program by 380 including combining the application process into one application for programs that provide direct support to communities, local charities and non-profit organizations.

In June 2017, Manitoba passed The Regulatory Accountability Act, which requires government to keep track of how many regulatory requirements exist and where they are located.

Between April 1, 2016, and March 31, 2018, the number of regulatory requirements in Manitoba was reduced by 2.6 per cent, from 948,599 to 924,180.