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Almost-Balanced Nunavut Budget Focuses On Health, Supports

The Canadian Press, 25 Feb, 2016 12:00 PM
    IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut is predicting an almost-balanced budget for the coming year with a focus on health and family support services.
     
    Finance Minister Keith Peterson says the territory expects a tiny deficit of $3.9 million on total spending of $1.7 billion.
     
    Spending is to increase by about four per cent.
     
    Health, family services and social assistance are to get the biggest boosts.
     
    Peterson says this year's budget will come in with a narrow surplus.
     
    Nunavut depends on the federal government for about 90 per cent of its budget.

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