Finance Minister Karen Casey heads from a media briefing to table the Nova Scotia provincial budget for 2019-2020 at the legislature in Halifax on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. However, the Liberals biggest spending increase is in the health care sector. In addition, the budget for the Nova Scotia Health Authority — the province’s merged health agency — is up $57.2 million. “Our largest increase over the last fiscal year is in the health budget.”Casey pointed out the province’s health spending has grown by almost one fifth in five years to $4.6 billion, consuming a steadily rising percentage of the government’s revenues. “By September 2020, we anticipate that every four-year-old in Nova Scotia will have access to a free, pre-primary, early learning opportunity,” said Casey.

Source: thestar March 26, 2019 08:49 UTC