Province wants bigger cut of federal environment funds

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REGINA — The provincial government wants a bigger share of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new provincial funding program for greenhouse gas and air pollution reduction projects.
And with Saskatchewan’ NDP government embroiled in a dispute with the federal Conservatives over the equalization funding program for provinces, Saskatchewan Finance Minister Andrew Thomson isn’t happy Harper is linking the new program to the “fiscal imbalance” between the provincial and federal governments.

Read the article from the Star Phoenix


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