Impose a four-year mandatory suspension of drivers' licences for people who steal a car.

Kept: Car thieves are given a five-year suspension after their first conviction and repeat offenders face a lifetime suspension.

Ban union and corporate donations in Manitoba.

Kept: New legislation came into force Jan. 1, 2001, with other election financing reforms. More on the amendments to the Elections Finances Act

Keep Manitoba Hydro a Crown corporation and require referenda before such corporations can be sold.

Broken: The Manitoba Hydro Amendment Act, which came into effect in July 6, 2001, requires a referendum be held before Manitoba Hydro can be sold. However, the NDP is still looking into introducing similar legislation for other Crown corporations.

End hallway medicine within six months.

Broken: patients are still being treated in hospital hallways.

Turn available part-time nursing jobs into full-time ones, in order to attract more nurses back to the profession.

Kept: The NDP says 604 more nurses work in full-time positions now than in 1999.

Promote communities along provincial rivers, and market the province to Americans and Europeans interested in aboriginal culture, wildlife and snowmobiling.

Kept: Television ads ran this spring and grants have been given to Snoman, which promotes snowmobiling in the province.

End direct subsidies to business.

Broken: Direct subsidies haven't ended, although the NDP says they've been reduced by $17 million to $20 million.

Implement the recommendations of the Roblin report to double enrollment in community colleges over the next five years. Also to increase operating grants, hire more instructors, and expand co-op programs.

Kept: The NDP says by the time the Red River campus extension opens next year, community college enrollment will have doubled. They say more instructors were also hired and the co-op program was expanded, although the party couldn't provide exact figures to back this claim.

Cut university and college tuition by 10 per cent.

Kept: University tuition was cut by 10 per cent and has been frozen since then.

Improve health care by opening more hospital beds, hiring more nurses and recruiting doctors to work in rural areas.

Kept: The government opened 350 personal care home beds and converted 49 to acute-care beds. Just under 500 nurses were recruited from other countries, and the NDP says there are three times as many nursing school graduates now than there were in 1999. The NDP says 120 specialists have been hired and 15 new medical school placements added.

Increase property tax credit to $400 per household over a two-year period.

Kept: by 2002

Eliminate the standard province-wide math and writing tests for Grade 3 students and replace them with a different test at a different time of year.

Kept: More on student testing and assessment

Give an e-mail address to every student, ensure computer literacy by grade eight, and make community work count for school credits.

Kept: Each student now has an e-mail address and the NDP says it is working on ensuring computer literacy by Grade 8. Community work now counts towards school credits.

Implement a program to provide nutrition for children and pregnant women.

Kept: More on the Healthy Baby program

Not allow television advertising in the province's classrooms.

Kept: In October 1999, the province announced schools would no longer be allowed to enter into contracts with a company to allow youth-oriented news programming – including commercials – in classrooms, in exchange for schools receiving television sets, VCRs and satellite dishes.

Not to make promises the NDP can't keep.

Status: It's up to the voters to decide this one.