Saint John will receive about 350 thousand dollars less while Fredericton gets 1.3 million fewer dollars next year.
Local Government Minister Bruce Fitch says those cities can absorb the change because of increases in their tax bases.
Provincial NDP leader Dominic Cardy is calling the Alward Government's new municipal funding model an attack on the largest cities in the province and a step backward.
Cardy tells CHSJ News cities and towns in the province should have greater powers to fix their own problems and not be stifled by the province and its bureaucrats.
