Cost of Living Cheques Possible Due to Increase in Government Revenue: Coady

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Cost of Living Cheques Possible Due to Increase in Government Revenue: Coady
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Premier Andrew Furey says the province's fiscal situation has 'temporarily improved' ahead of a fiscal update ...

The issue of the cost of living was front and centre during the Speech from the Throne yesterday. While Premier Andrew Furey touted the strides made by government, Opposition House Leader Barry Petten—who is serving in the absence of leader David Brazil—focused on the one-time cost-of-living benefit.

He says it took 15 months of advocacy for government to realize what they put in place was not enough. Petten hopes it isn’t another 15 months before government listens again.He questions where government’s “big bold ideas” are. He notes that he is speaking in Colonial Building and the amount of money that went into its restoration. He wonders how else that money could have been spent “had government’s priorities been different.

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