NDP: The Budget Vote

The Tories Dept: It's official -- the NDP's budget and its new taxes finally passed late Tuesday after two days of stalling by the opposition, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The budget vote was supposed to happen Friday, but the Tories used procedural wrangling over the April 18 email to delay the budget vote until late Tuesday and the Red River Co-op in Whyte Ridge was nearly drained Monday. What's dominated the budget debate more than the tax increases--the gas tax went up 2.5 per cent midnight Tuesday -- were calls by the Tories for the head of Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Christine Melnick over her handling of a bureaucrat's email to immigrant groups more than a week ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.