{"id":849342,"date":"2025-05-18T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/highlights-from-new-brunswicks-2025-26-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:12:37","slug":"highlights-from-new-brunswicks-2025-26-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/highlights-from-new-brunswicks-2025-26-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from New Brunswick&#8217;s 2025-26 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"details-body\" data-words=\"203\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>FREDERICTON \u2014 New Brunswick Finance Minister Ren\u00e9 Legacy has tabled the province&#8217;s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year, which includes measures to help workers and businesses affected by U.S. tariff threats. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Total spending is forecast to be $14.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The deficit is projected to be $549 million, which grows to $599 million when a $50-million contingency fund to cushion against the uncertainty of tariffs is included.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Revenues are projected to be $13.8 billion and real gross domestic product growth is forecast at 1.1 per cent for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Health care spending is to increase to $4.1 billion, which is about $293 million more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New Brunswick Housing Corp. budget increases by $36.6 million, up 18.6 per cent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 An increase of nearly $16.4 million to hire teachers to help address growth in student enrolment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 An extra $22 million for nursing homes and specialized beds to support the province\u2019s aging population and keep wait-lists from growing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Brunswick will spend $9 million on transitional housing and outreach services for domestic violence victims. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Dion Lupo <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrietoday.com\/business\/highlights-from-new-brunswicks-2025-26-budget-10394092\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON \u2014 New Brunswick Finance Minister Ren\u00e9 Legacy has tabled the province&#8217;s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year, which includes measures to help workers and businesses affected by U.S. tariff threats. Here are some highlights: \u2014 Total spending is forecast to be $14.3 billion. \u2014 The deficit is projected to be $549 million, which grows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143996,3975],"tags":[143995,6598],"class_list":{"0":"post-849342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brunswicks","8":"category-highlights","9":"tag-brunswicks","10":"tag-highlights"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}