NDP Fails to Answer N.S. Opposition Over $27M Budget Mistake

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The opposition parties of Nova Scotia tried to establish on Thursday that who approved an exaggeration of more than $27 million in revenue estimates of last spring’s budget, in response to which, a senior government official failed to answer or justify them on that level of detail.

The Deputy finance minister, Liz Cody, stated that she is unable to pin point that whose decision was it to not fix the revenue projections, while admitting that the Treasury Board acted on a recommendation from the department.  Cody informed the legislature’s public accounts committee, even though she wasn’t the deputy minister at the time, that “the decision that was made coming out of that (Treasury Board) meeting was to approve the revenues that were presented that excluded that adjustment.” Presumably, the members of opposition parties pressed Cody to spew answers, disputing the legislature and claiming that public must have been made aware of the discrepancy. The meeting was not attended by Premier Darrell Dexter, who has also denied any knowledge of the mistake.

Liberal Andrew Younger pointed out that the budget estimates were indeed debated in the house, even though, the finance minister was already well aware that the numbers aren’t accurate. He alleged that “the minister of finance stood up in the house and said they had beat their back-to-balance targets by $5 million. In fact, they were short by $22 million.” In a report of last month, auditor general Jacques Lapointe states that NDP government delivered a deficit forecast in its 2012-13 budget of $211 million, however, it was completely aware that the actual figure was $238 million.

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