An unremarkable budget from what has become a have-not, unremarkable province.
Kinew, in a post on social media, says everything from rotisserie chicken to salads would be free of the provincial sales tax of the budget passes.
The government has promised to balance the budget by the 2027-28 fiscal year but has missed its annual targets so far.
And Manitoba gets a full 15% of its provincial budget from equalization.
Is rotisserie chicken worth spit?
Keep your eye on the ball.
It’s a Sting (with good music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLH5YGulcTs&list=RDdLH5YGulcTs&start_radio=1
Wab Kinew? That can’t be his real name.
Rob Canoe
AKA: Wobbly Canoe.
Both his parents had lisps.
Tippy Canoe when he’s in his cups.
His real name be Rob Canoe but for the hiawatha folks Wab Kinew works seeing as they had no alphabet or written language….stone age folks ya know.
Manitoba is another coward liberal shithole like every other province, full of sheep who need mommy government for every little thing.
The government is promising to work with municipalities to provide free transit for young people.
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Huh? Is there a reason for this? Because, I can’t see how this helps balance the budget. If anything, it takes away the motivation for young people to get there posteriors off the couch and seek employment. Is this another back door “green initiative” at the expense of the taxpayer? Encourage the young ones to reside in metro areas while taking away the motivation to secure private transportation.
Went from a chicken in every pot, to a pot baby in every chick!
Wild times!
They were going to fix health care too.. How’s that going? “Asagwara is also the first black and first openly LGBT person to serve as Deputy Premier since its creation in 1988.” “They are non-binary.” “they announced that going forward, prescription birth control would be fully covered under the Manitoba Pharmacare program at an estimated cost of $11 million.” So you can have a side order of birth control pills with your chicken. People are still dying in the emergency room, but it’s just those older straight white ones, a small price to pay for so much diversity.
Why is the $5 Billion which Manitoba receives from the western provinces not included in their provincial budget announcement? 15% of it being “other people’s money” seems significant to mention..
After Alberta / Saskatchewan separate, and BC’s gov’t completes the ruination of their provincial budget, who will pay this +$5 Billion
So they can hide a $5 billion deficit?
Salads and rotisserie chicken. I’d say they have their entire voting spectrum pretty well covered.
Manitoba used to be the rich province in the West. All the head offices were in Winnipeg, as was the complete grain industry, and the commodity exchange. Winnipeg was also a manufacturing and warehousing centre. Now it’s a shithole. Who’s idea was that? How do you go from capitalist Mecca to economic shithole? I wonder if it had anything to do with the NDP with in between Conservative quislings?
Provincial sales tax?
In Alberta we can already buy rotisserie chicken and salad without paying provincial sales tax.
Yes but do you have a deficit? Then STFU.
Not certain how long our AB deficit projection will hold out, straight up related to the price of oil. I’m not hoping the Iranians can hold out for another few months so as to help us out on that front.
No doubt our deficit will return at some point, but “fresh start” 2026 and all that…
So in the spirit … GO IRAN! And sorry Oz, just joking.
s’cool. smooches
“When I work in the emergency room and I see a kid with a sore ear that’s drinking Pepsi and eating Doritos, I don’t want that to be the easiest accessible option for them and their family” says progressive left wing MB doctor.
Ah, Wab Kinew’s kin thrive on that diet
Strangely enough, polls show Wab Kinew to be the most popular premier by far in Canada.
Nobody wants to speak ill of him, for fear of being denounced to a Human Rights Commission. Do you suppose that the kind of people who work for Human Rights Commissions might occasionally take part-time work with pollsters, so they can denounce the negative responders?
That said, the province is going to hell much more slowly and less agonizingly than expected, so he does look pretty good. In some respects, he might actually have done reasonably well, I just can’t think of any.