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    The provincial legislature today voted to pass the 2012-13 Saskatchewan Party government budget - the only balanced provincial budget in Canada so far this year. British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick have all tabled deficit budgets. The federal government is expected to table a deficit budget later today. “The Saskatchewan Advantage is real,” Minister of Finance Ken Krawetz said. “While other provinces have massive deficits, we have balanced budgets. While other provinces have high unemployment and sluggish economies, we have the lowest unemployment in Canada and our economy is leading the nation.” Krawetz said the 2012-13 budget is about keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage and keeping Saskatchewan moving forward. “We’ve come so far, from a ‘have-not’ province to a ‘have’ province, from a declining population to a growing population,” Krawetz said. “Yet the NDP want to take us back. Last fall, the NDP were bent on taking Saskatchewan on a wild spending spree that would have driven our province back into massive deficits and have-not status. That’s still their position today.” “Saskatchewan voters chose affordable, sustainable spending over a wild NDP spending spree, and that’s the path we have taken with this budget.” The 2012-13 “Keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage” budget limits overall government spending increases to less than five per cent and posts a surplus in the Summary Financial Statements, which take into account all government spending. The budget keeps a number of Saskatchewan Party election promises, including $60 million for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative to further reduce wait times, $581 million for highway repair and maintenance, a $50 a month increase to the Seniors Income Plan for low income seniors, increased assistance for persons with disabilities and a new Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship that will provide all new high school graduates with $2,000 over four years to reduce the cost of their post-secondary education. “Saskatchewan is the best place in Canada to live, to work, to start a business, to get an education, to raise a family and to build a life. That’s the Saskatchewan Advantage, and we plan to keep it.”

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    The provincial legislature today voted to pass the 2012-13 Saskatchewan Party government budget - the only balanced provincial budget in Canada so far this year. British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick have all tabled deficit budgets. The federal government is expected to table a deficit budget later today. “The Saskatchewan Advantage is real,” Minister of Finance Ken Krawetz said. “While other provinces have massive deficits, we have balanced budgets. While other provinces have high unemployment and sluggish economies, we have the lowest unemployment in Canada and our economy is leading the nation.” Krawetz said the 2012-13 budget is about keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage and keeping Saskatchewan moving forward. “We’ve come so far, from a ‘have-not’ province to a ‘have’ province, from a declining population to a growing population,” Krawetz said. “Yet the NDP want to take us back. Last fall, the NDP were bent on taking Saskatchewan on a wild spending spree that would have driven our province back into massive deficits and have-not status. That’s still their position today.” “Saskatchewan voters chose affordable, sustainable spending over a wild NDP spending spree, and that’s the path we have taken with this budget.” The 2012-13 “Keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage” budget limits overall government spending increases to less than five per cent and posts a surplus in the Summary Financial Statements, which take into account all government spending. The budget keeps a number of Saskatchewan Party election promises, including $60 million for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative to further reduce wait times, $581 million for highway repair and maintenance, a $50 a month increase to the Seniors Income Plan for low income seniors, increased assistance for persons with disabilities and a new Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship that will provide all new high school graduates with $2,000 over four years to reduce the cost of their post-secondary education. “Saskatchewan is the best place in Canada to live, to work, to start a business, to get an education, to raise a family and to build a life. That’s the Saskatchewan Advantage, and we plan to keep it.”

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    The provincial legislature today voted to pass the 2012-13 Saskatchewan Party government budget - the only balanced provincial budget in Canada so far this year. British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick have all tabled deficit budgets. The federal government is expected to table a deficit budget later today. “The Saskatchewan Advantage is real,” Minister of Finance Ken Krawetz said. “While other provinces have massive deficits, we have balanced budgets. While other provinces have high unemployment and sluggish economies, we have the lowest unemployment in Canada and our economy is leading the nation.” Krawetz said the 2012-13 budget is about keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage and keeping Saskatchewan moving forward. “We’ve come so far, from a ‘have-not’ province to a ‘have’ province, from a declining population to a growing population,” Krawetz said. “Yet the NDP want to take us back. Last fall, the NDP were bent on taking Saskatchewan on a wild spending spree that would have driven our province back into massive deficits and have-not status. That’s still their position today.” “Saskatchewan voters chose affordable, sustainable spending over a wild NDP spending spree, and that’s the path we have taken with this budget.” The 2012-13 “Keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage” budget limits overall government spending increases to less than five per cent and posts a surplus in the Summary Financial Statements, which take into account all government spending. The budget keeps a number of Saskatchewan Party election promises, including $60 million for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative to further reduce wait times, $581 million for highway repair and maintenance, a $50 a month increase to the Seniors Income Plan for low income seniors, increased assistance for persons with disabilities and a new Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship that will provide all new high school graduates with $2,000 over four years to reduce the cost of their post-secondary education. “Saskatchewan is the best place in Canada to live, to work, to start a business, to get an education, to raise a family and to build a life. That’s the Saskatchewan Advantage, and we plan to keep it.”

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    The provincial legislature today voted to pass the 2012-13 Saskatchewan Party government budget - the only balanced provincial budget in Canada so far this year. British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick have all tabled deficit budgets. The federal government is expected to table a deficit budget later today. “The Saskatchewan Advantage is real,” Minister of Finance Ken Krawetz said. “While other provinces have massive deficits, we have balanced budgets. While other provinces have high unemployment and sluggish economies, we have the lowest unemployment in Canada and our economy is leading the nation.” Krawetz said the 2012-13 budget is about keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage and keeping Saskatchewan moving forward. “We’ve come so far, from a ‘have-not’ province to a ‘have’ province, from a declining population to a growing population,” Krawetz said. “Yet the NDP want to take us back. Last fall, the NDP were bent on taking Saskatchewan on a wild spending spree that would have driven our province back into massive deficits and have-not status. That’s still their position today.” “Saskatchewan voters chose affordable, sustainable spending over a wild NDP spending spree, and that’s the path we have taken with this budget.” The 2012-13 “Keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage” budget limits overall government spending increases to less than five per cent and posts a surplus in the Summary Financial Statements, which take into account all government spending. The budget keeps a number of Saskatchewan Party election promises, including $60 million for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative to further reduce wait times, $581 million for highway repair and maintenance, a $50 a month increase to the Seniors Income Plan for low income seniors, increased assistance for persons with disabilities and a new Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship that will provide all new high school graduates with $2,000 over four years to reduce the cost of their post-secondary education. “Saskatchewan is the best place in Canada to live, to work, to start a business, to get an education, to raise a family and to build a life. That’s the Saskatchewan Advantage, and we plan to keep it.”

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    March 29, Date 2012

    SaskParty Government Passes First Balanced Budget in Canada This Year


    The provincial legislature today voted to pass the 2012-13 Saskatchewan Party government budget - the only balanced provincial budget in Canada so far this year. Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick all have one thing in common deficit budgets with unsustainable spending. Over the last few years, Saskatchewan people have worked hard to get our province into the enviable position we are in today, and it was our job, as legislators, to protect the advantage you have created, said MLA XXXX. Last fall, the NDP were bent on taking Saskatchewan down the same path they wanted to go on a wild spending spree that would have driven our province back into have-not status. While other provinces post deficits and try to spend their way out of debt, our government is taking action that ensures we keep the Saskatchewan Advantage. The 2012-13 Keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage budget limits overall government spending increases to less than 5 per cent and posts a surplus of $15 million in the Summary Financial Statements, which take into account all government spending. The budget also includes sustainable spending measures such as $60 million for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative to further reduce wait times, $551 million for highways, further increases to the Seniors Income Plan, $237.4 million in Municipal Revenue Sharing, $4 million to expand the colorectal cancer screening program province-wide and $113 million to increase benefits and the number of clients served under the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability program. This budget takes action to ensure Saskatchewan people continue to enjoy the highest quality of life in Canada, said MLA XXXX. For the first time in many years, our province is the destination of choice for people to live, to work, to start a business, to get an education, to raise a family and to build a life. Thats the Saskatchewan Advantage. 30 -

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