The Canadian Press: Manitoba to spend on job creation amid U.S. trade battle: finance minister

Manitoba has run deficits in every year but two since 2009, and one political analyst said the NDP’s promise to balance the budget seems like an uphill battle, especially with the economic fallout from the U.S. trade war.

“The finance minister was already pushing a big boulder up a very, very steep hill. The boulder seems to be getting bigger and the hill seems to be getting steeper,” said Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

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