Province still sorting through fine details of federal budget

REGINA - The provincial government is still working its way through the fine print of Tuesday’s federal budget and its $78 billion deficit.

“Obviously we're looking at it in more detail, you know sometimes the devil's in the details,” said provincial Finance Minister Jim Reiter to reporters Wednesday.

But on an initial first look at the budget Reiter did not seem surprised by the fact that there was a increased deficit. He said the large deficit would “obviously be concerning but understandable.”

“We're in a situation in the world today where economic headwinds are affecting revenues, I think, of all jurisdictions, so obviously that's impacting the federal government. I think probably as we move forward this fiscal (year), you'll see it's impacting all the provinces as well.”

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