FISCAL CRISIS BIGGER THAN ACCOUNTED FOR IN EMPLOYERS' COUNCIL PLAN

“Another Way Forward” is a policy document recently released by the NL Employers’ Council. It is a response by the province’s largest business organization to our desperate fiscal crisis. It purports to contain suggestions for a “better way forward” than the one released last year by the Ball Administration.

High on the agenda of the Employers’ Council is a reduction in taxation on both business and individuals, cuts to government programs and services, and a reduction in public sector employment by attrition. 

The NLEC concludes that “government could remove more than a billion dollars in spending and we would still have:

1.       the largest spending per capita

2.      the highest paid public service and

3.      the highest spending on health and education of any province in Atlantic Canada.”