The MLA for Morris says 2015 was filled with positive stories for his constituency.

Shannon Martin points to the installation of traffic lights at Highway 59 through Niverville, putting to bed a much talked-about safety issue in the area.

Other highlights for the MLA include the new hemp crushing facility at Ste. Agathe and continued growth and development in the Town of Morris, including the new Tim Hortons.

Meantime, Martin says constituents continued to discuss with him their concerns around education infrastructure in the area.

"Whether or not the schools are ready for the growth in some of these communities. Niverville and in my home community of La Salle and the neighbouring community of Oak Bluff, the populations are growing and there's a lot of new school-aged children coming on stream and huts can't be the only answer for those new students."

Martin also serves as Conservation and Water Stewardship Critic for the province and says a lot of discussions around the preservation of wetlands was had this past year. He is also referring the NDP's new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions "shockingly incomplete."

"They announced an entire strategy in 2009 and of course they did nothing to follow through on that one, so they found themselves in a bit of a pickle and had to re-announced another strategy."

Martin adds the big game crisis in Manitoba was also a concern in 2015.

"Hunters are quite considered about the long-term sustainability of some of the big game, especially moose, here in Manitoba. Hunting and fishing brings in about half a billion dollars to the provincial economy and it's something that I think is under-valued by this current government."

The MLA also says in 2015, Manitobans continued to feel the fallout of the NDP's decision to raise the PST.