Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Cathy Bennett was shouted down and then yelled at in a tense confrontation near the end of a public forum in St. John's on Thursday. Mark Croft came to the meeting with a designed shirt calling for the resignation of Premier Dwight Ball and Cathy Bennett. Billy Jackman says he used to sit on the St. John's Board of Trade with Cathy Bennett, when she chaired the organization. #nlbudget pic.twitter.com/TqYHyv83OJ — @GarrettBarryWe're listening: BennettAfter the heckling, but before the heated confrontation, Blake told reporters she didn't feel that government was paying attention. Finance Minister Cathy Bennett told reporters that the government would be following a zero-based budgeting approach going forward, where government departments would be required to build funding requests starting at zero.

Source: CBC News February 03, 2017 09:14 UTC