Brian Pallister and the new provincial government have announced a list of new appointees for the boards of Manitoba Public Insurance and Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries.

It comes despite Tory criticism of patronage appointments by the NDP government.

Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries

Polly Craik and Nick Logan have been appointed chair and vice-chair of the board, respectively.

Craik sold Fine Line Communications in 2015 after 25 years as owner. She previously served as a chair of the boards for the CentreVenture Development Corporation and the Business Council of Manitoba.

Logan is the past president, director and CEO of National Leasing (from 1987 to 2014). Logan currently serves as principle of Logan Point Investments Inc., which specializes in "small-business equity and property development," according to the province.

Logan donated $1,000 to the Progressive Conservatives in 2015.

The remaining board director appointments include:

Gary Coleman, president of Big Freight Systems Inc.

Tracy Maconachie, president of the Life Science Association of Manitoba

James Morden, Assante Corporation founding partner and current vice-president of Pavilion Investment House

Stuart Murray, past president of Canadian Museum for Human Rights, St. Boniface Hospital, and Domo Gasoline Corporation

Rene Pereux, owner/operator of Pereux Financial Services, founder of Daystar Financial Group

Jennifer Plett, office operations manager at Plett Trucking Ltd.

Mavis Taillieu, vice-president of Parc Industries

Murray previously served as leader of the Progressive Conservatives and leader of the Official Opposition in the legislature from 2000 to 2006.

Plett is no stranger to federal or provincial politics either. She worked for the Manitoba government between 1995 and 1999. Plett also spent 1987 to 1989 employed under Jake Epp, then-minister of health and welfare for the federal government.

Tallieu also has a history in provincial politics, serving as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 2003 to 2013 as an elected official in the Morris constituency.

Tallieu donated $2416.25 to the PCs last year. Meanwhile Morden and Pereux donated $2,251.01 and $300, respectively, to Pallister's party in 2015.

Machonachie, who ran and lost for the PCs in River Heights, donated $460 to the party.

Manitoba Public Insurance

Brent VanKoughnet has been named as the new chair of MPI. VanKoughnet previously owned and managed Agri Skills Inc. for 25 years.

Board director appointments include:

Valerie Wowryk, chartered financial analyst, former president of CFA Winnipeg

Dan Bubis, president, chief investment officer and founder of Tetrem Capital Management

Domenic Grestoni, worked in different capacities for Great West Life for nearly 40 years

Edna Nabess, owner of two businesses in Manitoba specializing in moccasins

Jeff Wharton, president and CEO of J Wharton Moving Consultants Ltd., owner of Globe Moving and Storage Ltd.

Richard Chale, former president and CEO of FWS Group of Companies

Chale gave $2,250 to the PCs in 2015; Wharton and Bubis donated $1,383.75 and $1,305, respectively. Wharton won the Gimli constituency as a PC candidate in the recent provincial election.

Meanwhile Nabess, who ran and lost for the PCs in the northern Kewatinook constituency, sent $298.76 to Pallister and the PCs last year.

The announcements come just over a week after the province announced its new slate of Manitoba Hydro board members.