The opposition NDP are asking questions about the province’s third-quarter financial report and why it hasn’t been released.
Usually. that would come alongside a budget this month, but that budget isn’t coming until a spring sitting begins on April 6.
Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon says there is no reason why the government should be hiding the numbers two months after the end of the third quarter.
The mid-year report showed the deficit sitting at just over $2 billion dollars.
The statements from Wotherspoon come at the same time as the government announces it has used up the contingency fund set aside for COVID-19 as cabinet has approved over 322 million in unbudgeted spending through special warrants
200 million had been set aside in the last budget with 40 million already allocated to the Safe School Plan in August.
75.6 milliion of the remaining 160 million in that fund is going to the Saskatchewan Health Authority for COVID-19 related expenses. Another 179.5 million also goes to the SHA as a part of the special warrants that were approved. Highways and Corrections are also seeing large sums come their way with money also going to advanced education, agriculture and justice.
