{"id":60065,"date":"2025-11-05T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=60065"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:39:39","slug":"minister-lohr-responds-to-the-federal-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=60065","title":{"rendered":"Minister Lohr responds to the federal budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The following is a statement from John Lohr, Minister of Finance and Treasury Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to congratulate Prime Minister Carney on the introduction of his first budget. Nova Scotia sees this as a budget that aims to improve productivity and make our economy more innovative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The province is pleased to see the mention of Wind West and its potential benefits, and we look forward to its inclusion in the next round of approved major projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Government of Canada has promised more money for healthcare infrastructure, housing and development, and has extended some investment tax credits.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The budget also provides support for trade and to key sectors of importance for the province of Nova Scotia: defence, critical minerals, energy and fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our goal remains the same: to create more economic opportunities for Nova Scotians by turning our province into an energy superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to continuing to work with the federal government as it implements this budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: The following is a statement from John Lohr, Minister of Finance and Treasury Board. &#8220;We want to congratulate Prime Minister Carney on the introduction of his first budget. Nova Scotia sees this as a budget that aims to improve productivity and make our economy more innovative. &#8220;The province is pleased to see the mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[383,9637,48,1077,7962],"class_list":["post-60065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-federal-budget","tag-minister-of-finance-john-lohr","tag-n-s","tag-nova-scotia","tag-prime-minister-mark-carney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60065","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=60065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}