The finance minister provided a rare mid-summer fiscal update yesterday, boasting positive economic indicators and an improved credit rating.
But Siobhan Coady scoffed at suggestions that it was timed to coincide with the upcoming by-election in Waterford Valley.
Coady was asked if holding such updates this time of year was a regular thing.
“We always put out a press release or allowed people to talk with me at any given time,” she said. “So, it’s not really—you know the fall fiscal update will be more thorough; we’ll go through our financial projections, we’ll go through our numbers based on six months of budgetary. But this is … you know we always update in terms of the economy and how it’s doing.”
Jim Dinn
NDP Leader Jim Dinn wasn’t buying it.
“Must be by-election time I guess, and they decided to reiterate some of the things that they already mentioned in the budget itself.”
Polling day for the by-election in Waterford Valley is set for August 22nd.
