The Canadian Press: Manitoba’s NDP government caught in fiscal squeeze during first year

A political analyst said the government will be hard-pressed to meet its campaign pledge to balance the budget in its first term, given its spending promises.

“They seem to want to be responsive to any group that comes along and says, ‘We’re experiencing economic hardship,’ or ‘We’re entitled to more benefits than this.’ So how they respond to the claims on the public purse and achieve a balanced budget by 2027 is hard to see at this point,” said Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

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