Manitoba premier enacts 2-week isolation order for travel in Canada, calls on feds to close borders In February, Valel was named assistant deputy minister of transformation in the Department of Families, to fill in for someone else.The government says that appointment has been revoked and Valel is back at his former job.Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister issued a directive to political staff and other appointees in early February to avoid leisure travel or face possible termination.“This individual’s travel to the United States should not have continued after the directive regarding non-essential travel for Government of Manitoba employees was issued,” Blake Robert, media relations director for the Progressive Conservative cabinet, wrote in.