Newly re-elected Premier Brian Pallister has outlined a list of 100 issues he wants to tackle in the first 100 days of his new mandate. While most were promised during the campaign, he announced a couple of new ones.

Pallister announced that his government would begin consultations with the private sector on ways to eliminate the use of plastic bags in the province. If plastic bags become banned, Manitoba would be only the third province to do so, behind P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Plastic bags have been banned in different municipalities across the country, including Thompson and The Pas, but province-wide bans are new. Prince Edward Island’s ban on plastic bags took effect in July and Newfoundland’s ban is to take effect soon.

Prime Minister Trudeau said in June that the federal government was starting working towards banning toxic single-use plastics.

Another item on Pallister’s 100-day list is a change to provincial rules so that restaurants can deliver liquor to customers’ doors.

The province also plans to restructure a financing arrangement for Investors Group Field, after the stadium ran over budget and faced costly repairs. Pallister said the goal is to make the deal more transparent and fair to taxpayers.

The government will also identify and land or property no longer in use by the government so that it can be sold, as well as lift many restrictions on shopping on Sundays and holidays.

Pallister was re-elected after fulfilling a promise to reduce the provincial sales tax and bring down the deficit. One of the main promises for his second term is to balance the budget and start to eliminate, over a 10-year period, education taxes on property.

In the immediate future, Pallister plans to reconvene the legislature at the end of the month and pass the spring budget.