Manitoba’s NDP government is set to introduce its first budget today since winning last October’s election. The fiscal plan is expected to include rebates on electric vehicles, a bigger tax credit for fertility treatments, and free prescription birth control – all of which were NDP campaign promises.Premier Wab Kinew told CTV this morning the 14-cent-a-litre fuel tax will be suspended for three months longer than its initial end date of June 30.
A government source tells The Canadian Press that the education property tax and income taxes will be changed so that high-income earners and people with higher-value properties will pay more. The budget is also expected to see a big increase in health-care spending, helped in part by a recent boost in federal transfer payments. Manitoba has run deficits in every year but two since 2009, and the NDP has promised to balance the budget within its first ter