A couple of hundred joined a peaceful demonstration in Memorial park... Their beef?   A forty million dollar pledge from the province made in December, to refurbish the Manitoba Developmental centre in Portage la Prairie.

Community Living Manitoba's Executive director Dale Kendel says the time has well past for institutionalizing people with disabilities. Kendel asks "Why in 2005 is the prospect of an institution to warehouse people 60 miles away Winnpeg and other communities in Manitoba acceptable?"

The demonstators claim no one from the Doer government took the short walk across the street to Memorial Park. But Opposition parties did.   Both Liberal leader Jon Gerrard and Conservative leader Stuart Murray say if the message here isn't heard by the NDP, they'll bring it to them.  Gerrard says institutions don't make sense financially.