Details will be announced in Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s March 28 budget, which will have a deficit as high as $8 billion. The premier added that there would be an expanded public dental program in next week’s fiscal blueprint. “It’s awfully coincidental that they stuck ‘dental’ into their throne speech,” said the NDP leader. “These are fights that our children and grandchildren can’t afford for us to lose,” the throne speech said. Child-care advocates were buoyed by the throne speech’s references to chronically low wages for early childhood educator and sky-high parent fees.

Source: thestar March 19, 2018 16:27 UTC