WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Tories say they can reduce the record number of children in care by ensuring parents have jobs.

Conservative Leader Brian Pallister says poverty and the demand for CFS services are inseparably linked, so the sollution will be to create jobs.

NDP Leader Greg Selinger is promising to set up a new patient advocate in the health-care system if he is re-elected premier.

Selinger says the appointed person would help patients and their families get answers when something goes wrong and there is a critical incident review.

The Liberals are promising to improve online campsite reservations, saying that opening bookings for all campsites on one day every spring has just led to long wait times.

The election will take place April 19.