First,
let’s clear up any confusion. The downgrade in the Province’s credit rating by
Moody’s, a credit rating agency, resulted not from a “highly ambitious” deficit
plan,...
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Post by David Vardy
Department
of Finance Bypassed
Former
Finance Minister Cathy Bennett told the Muskrat Falls Inquiry this week that
upon her appointment to the Finance portfolio in...
On Tuesday, Finance Minister Tom Osborne delivered the Province’s
seventh deficit Budget in a row. Only the Atlantic Accord arrangement, amounting
to $2.5 billion, salvaged any...
VOCM, in a year-end news story, quotes Finance Minister
Tom Osborne saying that “the province has made some significant progress in the
last three years in...
In March of this year the Finance Minister, Tom Osborne,
delivered the seventh in a successive string of deficit budgets, their genesis originating
in both Tory...
Noticeably more people, including readers of this Blog, want
to see public discussion of a resolution to the financial mess created by
Muskrat. While their numbers...
Monday’s Blog Post forecasting a ‘status quo’ Budget didn’t
exactly require going out on a limb. The Government had long ago made clear
that they don’t...