The province’s financial picture is not pretty. Last year’s proposed surplus budget was swamped with emergency spending and undercut by lost revenues. The budget is now forecast to wind up as a $13-billion deficit. And the pressure on spending – especially on health care – will continue into the year ahead.New Democrats reconvene as hiccups, frustrations plague national policy convention
Mr. Finlayson expects this year’s deficit to be much smaller than forecast, and modest economic growth in the year to come. “A deficit closer to $10-billion for 2020-21 is quite conceivable, in my view.” If it is traditional bricks-and-mortar infrastructure that the governments want, it should look at the one segment of public health that has long been neglected: long-term care facilities.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
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