Nova Scotia expected to table budget today with focus on health care — again – Halifax | 24CA News
Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives will desk the second finances of their mandate in the present day, and the main target is predicted as soon as once more to be on well being care.
Ever since Premier Tim Houston’s celebration was elected to manipulate in August 2021, the federal government has made its central mission repairing a health-care system beset by lengthy wait-lists and an ever-growing listing of individuals and not using a physician.
Houston has been on a health-care spending spree in latest weeks.
He dedicated $59 million to arrange a medical faculty at Cape Breton University; $37 million on a well being institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S.; and $25 million on creating health-care analytics applications at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
That cash was along with funds put aside in final 12 months’s finances, which pumped a further $413 million into an ailing system that was anticipated to eat $5.7 billion in spending — about 43 per cent of presidency spending.
Finance Minister Allan MacMaster is predicted to launch the finances for the 2023-24 fiscal 12 months round 1:15 p.m.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed March 23, 2023.
