REGINA - Reaction to the 2025 federal budget handed down last week has focused mainly on the investments the federal government is making — as well as a big deficit.

“$78 billion. That's a big number. We can all acknowledge that,” said Premier Scott Moe in speaking to reporters at the legislature Thursday.

Moe said there are reasons why it is so large, pointing to significant investments, multi-year investments that are there, and they don't change in one budget year. But he also noted it was a challenging time and said they would be looking closely at the revenue lines in all of the federal and provincial budgets that come out.

“We're in a very challenging time with respect to the Canadian economy. We have trade and market access tariffs all over the place. Our three largest markets, t

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