Manitoba’s government is signalling that its upcoming budget will pump more money into health care and offer some sort of protection against rising inflation
Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government, trailing in opinion polls with an election set for next year, is signalling that its upcoming budget will pump more money into health care and offer some sort of protection against rising inflation.Last week, she promised $15 million for personal care homes in what was touted as a “prebudget announcement”.
The Tories were elected under former premier Brian Pallister in 2016 with the biggest majority in Manitoba in a century. They were re-elected in 2019 but have dropped sharply in opinion polls since the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pallister, who froze public-sector wages and kept spending increases below the rate of inflation in a bid to end a decade of deficits, resigned last fall.
“I suspect that we might see in this budget a budget for addressing concerns of the population and not a budget to slash and burn,” he said.