• Budget Releases
  Budget Speech
  Budget Highlights
  
  Budget 2005 Overview
• Newfoundland and Labrador achieves significant deficit reduction in Budget 2005
• Budget 2005 affirms commitments to Labrador development
• Licensee levy to be phased out
• Budget 2005 announces tobacco tax increase
  
  Celebrating Our Culture
• Fine arts and culture strategy key feature in curriculum
• Budget 2005 - Supporting creative people 
• $2.4 million to support the growth of cultural industries
• Supporting the continued growth of the film industry
• Education and outreach to be hallmarks of The Rooms
  
  Investing in Our Social Responsibilities
• Government acts to reduce patient wait times; $23.2 million investment delivers 43,444 more procedures across province
• Government enhances care for seniors with $14.5 million investment
• Budget 2005 boosts provincial drug plan - 25 new drugs added
• Government enhances support for mental health and addictions
• Government makes record $6 million investment to strengthen public health
• Increased investment in sport and recreation
• Government invests in new health technology to improve patient care
• Government continues to improve patient care
• Making school busing safe and secure
• Budget 2005 strengthens education cornerstones
• Sound principles guide post-secondary and continuing education investments
• Preparing our youth for success
• Building pathways to poverty reduction
• Budget 2005 enhances services for children
• Building services to improve justice system
  Budget 2005 funding improves justice resources for communities across Newfoundland and Labrador
• Government announces funding for violence prevention and women’s centres
  
  Economic Investment and Diversification
• Economic growth and diversification an investment in our future
• Budget 2005 provides more than $9 million for community, regional and sectorial development
• IT Investments: Modernizing government
• Maximizing benefit of natural resources through responsible management
• Government makes new investment to curb salmon poaching
• Strategic initiatives to safeguard our natural heritage
• Restructuring to provide more global outlook on seafood
• Investing in our tourism industry
• Budget 2005 announces strategic investments in marine infrastructure
• Budget 2005 builds on infrastructure commitments

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