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Minister responsible for Seniors (Manitoba)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ17119427 ↗
Source-derived summary

Since 1988, the Executive Council of Manitoba has included a minister responsible for Seniors. The position is not a full cabinet portfolio.

The current Minister responsible for Seniors is Kerri Irvin-Ross.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Minister, responsible and Seniors is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Minister responsible for Seniors (Manitoba)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.