The first of five pre-budget consultations goes tonight in Saint John. Residents are invited to share their opinions on what the final wording of the document should look like. Minister of Finance Greg Byrne and Minister of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Donald Arseneault will be on hand.
The meeting gets started at seven o'clock in the lecture theater of the Community College. The Graham Government will hand it's budget down in December and not in the spring which has raised the suspicion of the opposistion Conservatives. Premier Graham has responded with the Conservatives have been calling for a fiscal update and this takes that one step further.