Manitoba budget 2017: A breakdown of the government’s priorities

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Salary cost-cutting runs throughout the Progressive Conservative government’s second budget, billed as “responsible recovery” with modest spending increases in key areas of health, education, justice and infrastructure.

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Health

The province plans to spend a little more than $100 million more for health care this year – the smallest increase in recent years. New spending includes:

• $1.7 million to begin universal screening of newborn hearing

• $8.8 million more to expand kidney dialysis and treatment

• $1.6 million for more support of mental health services

• $9.5 million for new cancer drugs, and $6.5 million to lower ambulance fees for Manitobans

• The province will also pay for two replacement ambulances for the City of Winnipeg and will spend $1 million so three provincial nursing stations can continue to operate

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Education

The province is spending $36 million more, including reducing barriers low income students face in accessing post-secondary education.

• The province will transform the Manitoba Bursary Program into a grant available to students while they study

• Tuition Fee Income Tax Rebate will be reduced this year and eliminated next year and the Advance Tuition Fee Income Tax Rebate will be eliminated this year

• The province will provide $1.3 billion to students from Kindergarten to Grade 12

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Families

The Manitoba Families budget is up by $105 million, a 5.4 per cent increase from last year. The province wants to begin reducing child-care waiting lists by adding 501 new licenced child-care spaces and 50 new home-based child-care spaces.

• $12.8 million more will be spent to increase the number and quality of affordable housing

• $85 million will go to Employment Income and the Rental Assistance programming clients

• The province won’t change the Primary Caregiver Tax Credit.

• Around $8 million will help refugees who are no longer eligible for federal settlement support.

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Justice

The province will spend an additional $12 million on Manitoba Justice, which the government says will help ease the backlog in criminal courts.

• The Manitoba Prosecutions Branch will see an increase from $33 million to $34 million while Legal Aid Manitoba gets the same $32.3 million it received last year

• Consumer protection budget, which includes facilitation of consumer-business disputes and tenant-landlord disputes, has been cut slightly to $11.7 million from $12 million budgeted last year 

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Infrastructure

The province will invest $1.7 billion on infrastructure this year, inlcuding for health care and education with a focus on flood protection. “Strategic” investment inlcudes:

• $747 million for roads, highways, bridges and flood protection

•  $641 million for health, education, and housing infrastructure

• “Up to” $370 million for municipal, local and provincial infrastructure

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