The real question about Tuesday’s provincial budget will be how inaccurate the Higgs government’s projected surplus figure will be.
For two straight years, Finance Minister Ernie Steeves has underestimated how much revenue the province would collect and what that would mean for its bottom line.
And with hundreds of millions of extra dollars in revenue expected again in the coming year, economist Richard Saillant says it would be absurd for the government to lowball its figures for a third straight year.
“I think the government faces an embarrassment of riches,” he said.
“Without doing something major in terms of spending growth or tax cuts,
