FREDERICTON — After a decade of deficits, New Brunswick’s Liberal finance minister says the government will produce more red ink when she delivers the provincial budget Tuesday. We have identified some challenges and we will face these challenges head-on with investments,” Cathy Rogers said Monday. And during his state-of-the province address, he said the budget would include a $20-million economic competitiveness package. When you take an extra billion dollars of revenue out of the economy and still have a deficit, I think that’s quite irresponsible,” he said. “Even a fifth grader could balance the budget with a billion extra dollars in tax revenues.

Source: National Post January 29, 2018 20:30 UTC