Throne speech reaction: Mayor Bowman calls it 'encouraging,' while NDP 'heartbroken'

​About as quickly as newly minted Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister delivered his first throne speech on Monday, criticism and compliments churned out from political figures across the spectrum.

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• Throne speech kicks off Manitoba legislative session Monday

The NDP called the speech "heartbreaking," while Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman said it was "very encouraging."

The speech stuck closely to Tory campaign promises made throughout the election and had few surprises.

Interim-NDP Leader Flor Marcelino said the party was happy the speech was short, but she was concerned that it lacked details.

"We're heartbroken that there are several sectors that are not mentioned, and we want them mentioned because they're very important. They're Manitobans – part of our society," said Marcelino, specifically pointing to the province's Indigenous community and immigrants.

"So many people were not mentioned. We want to see what they will do with education, with teachers. We want to see how they will treat people with disabilities. How about the Indigenous population? How about the North? How about newcomers?"

Marcelino said talk of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls was absent from the speech, as was any mention of reconciliation.

"We'd like fulsome discussion on those," she said.

She also wants more details on a carbon-pricing plan Pallister touched on in his speech.

"We're also concerned that the TPP was mentioned – that they would like to pursue it," she said. "During the campaign period that was never mentioned."

Marcelino said Trans-Pacific Partnership would impact workers and major industries in the province.

Meanwhile, Bowman said the throne speech comes during "early days" and the broad themes were encouraging. He called it a "good speech for Winnipeg."

"When we hear discussion about tourism, immigration, Indigenous matters, investments in infrastructure, fair say -- these are things that we've been talking about, and I've been talking about for some time," said Bowman. "We're obviously working in the same direction in terms of strategic infrastructure investments."

Bowman said the speech indicated there will be "lots of room" for collaboration between the City of Winnipeg and Province of Manitoba going forward.

The Manitoba Liberals echoed concerns of the NDP, saying they were concerned immigration was not brought up during the speech.

MLA Judy Klassen wanted to hear more about the east side road authority, the suicide crisis on Northern Manitoba First Nations and ongoing problems with CFS.

"To be honest a lot of the detail here was very vague, so we need more detail," said Liberal MLA Jon Gerrard.