With an election expected to be called any day, and following a week of marathon announcements, the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal government is getting ready to hand down its fourth budget today. Those releases came on the heels of a weeklong flurry of government newsers that saw the Liberals make pre-election announcements totalling $339 million in spending. Ball is set to announce an election any day now, so the budget being tabled by the Liberals may not make it through the House of Assembly before then. If polling numbers are any indication, the Liberals and Dwight Ball as their leader have rebounded from a previous plummeting of approval ratings. Before the 2016 budget, Ball and the Liberals were around 66 per cent approval, according a poll by Corporate Research Associates at the time.

Source: CBC News April 16, 2019 10:00 UTC