Opposition parties critical of PC government's end-of-fiscal-year spending spree
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NDP Leader Claudia Chender was also critical of this year's extra spending.
"Tim Houston can spend all the money he wants but if it's not making a difference then at some point he's going to have to be responsible for the question of why?'" said Chender.
"We're about to go into a budget process where we're going to spend weeks and weeks and weeks talking about the government's budget, their priorities, whether it meets the moment and in the end they can do whatever they want and we have very little oversight."
"So the question is, is that spending working," she said. "And so far the people that I speak to say resoundingly, no."
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