COVID-19 blasts $850M hole in Nova Scotia budget
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NDP finance critic Claudia Chender said it's important for the government to live within its means, but now is no time for austerity.
Chender said she'd like to see the government consider targeted spending that goes to the people and areas that most need it and also ‘spend upstream,’ which means spending on things that might not have immediate benefits but are good long-range investments.
‘I'm talking about things like we know that there were request after request for infrastructure money for Northwood, for example, to have individual rooms. That didn't happen. We know that we need increased funding around community health initiatives. We know that public health spending in Nova Scotia is last in the country.’
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