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Steven Fletcher tried more than once to modernise Manitoba’s conflict-of-interest law for members of the Legislature. His bill went the furthest of any he introduced as an MLA before the governing majority voted it down in 2018, and the refusal is hard to square with the federal record: the same Conservatives, Fletcher and Premier Brian Pallister among them, had voted to tighten Ottawa’s accountability rules in 2006.

Steven Fletcher proposed cutting the Manitoba Legislature from 57 seats to 49, a smaller and cheaper assembly for a province of Manitoba’s size. Like his other private member’s bills, it did not pass, but it put a concrete number on a question most legislatures avoid asking about themselves.