OSBORNE: NO PRICE TOO HIGH FOR POLITICAL PEACE

Mercifully, Finance Minister Tom Osborne kept the Budget Update short. It won’t get much ink here, either.

Osborne has confirmed what most people seem to have concluded: he has no intention of tackling the deficit.

The former Finance Minister, Cathy Bennett, told a reporter that “I wish we had had better information going into the election campaign,” seemingly ignorant of the fact that, as an MHA, she was always expected to read — and to understand — the Budget Estimates. Of course, her search was for a scapegoat. Osborne, not four months into the job, hopes he has found one too.