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HALIFAX:<\/strong> The Houston government\u2019s latest budget continues a troubling trend: more spending, a slowing economy, and less accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With potential U.S. tariffs on the horizon, Nova Scotia needs a strong economic plan that delivers real opportunities for businesses and workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, this budget adds another significant deficit of nearly $1 billion while Nova Scotia remains at the bottom in GDP per capita among all provinces and U.S. states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis government has had nearly four years to strengthen our economy, but instead, they spent billions of dollars without any meaningful progress,\u201d said Interim Leader Derek Mombourquette \u201cWe need a plan that creates real opportunities for businesses and workers \u2013 not just ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Liberals are also raising concerns about the Houston government using its supermajority to avoid scrutiny, burying critical policy changes in two omnibus bills and crushing the independence of the Auditor General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNova Scotia is the birthplace of responsible government, yet this Premier is undermining the very institutions that keep our democracy accountable,\u201d said House Leader Iain Rankin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the government was proud of what they were doing, they wouldn\u2019t be hiding important details in a omnibus bill on budget day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”188″] [adrotate banner=”126″] HALIFAX: The Houston government\u2019s latest budget continues a troubling trend: more spending, a slowing economy, and less accountability. With potential U.S. tariffs on the horizon, Nova Scotia needs a strong economic plan that delivers real opportunities for businesses and workers. Instead, this budget adds another significant deficit of nearly $1 billion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[2007,1866,6263,1867],"class_list":["post-52428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-derek-mombourquette","tag-iain-rankin","tag-n-s-budget","tag-n-s-liberals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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