With a by-election in Waterford Valley just a couple weeks away, opposition leader Tony Wakeham questions the timing of a news conference held by the finance minister earlier this week.
Minister Siobhan Coady called the update on Wednesday morning to tout the province’s economic performance for the first half of 2024.
Wakeham told the Tim Powers Show on VOCM that meeting with media ahead of the normal fall fiscal update is something they haven’t witnessed in recent memory.
“The minister has said that normally she would issue a press release at this time for an economic update, but I took the liberty of going back through the Department of Finance’s news releases for the last two years, 2022 and 2023, looking for an example of a news release at this time of year and I couldn’t find either one.”