N.S. premier says ballooning deficit won't change government spending plans

NDP Leader Claudia Chender said the Progressive Conservatives have made a habit of tabling budgets that become "meaningless" in a matter of months because of additional spending that gets approved by the government after the budget has been passed.

The PCs have repeatedly tabled deficit budgets, only to end the fiscal year in a surplus thanks mainly to booming population growth and the related economic spinoffs.

That seems less certain this time, given factors such as plateauing population growth and Chinese tariffs on Canadian seafood products.

Chender said it seems like the public is not getting the benefits that should come from the record spending by the government.

"If they believe that that is money that needs to be spent to make people's lives better, well, we'd better see people's lives getting better and right now that's not what we're hearing."

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