{"id":45013,"date":"2015-03-18T02:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45013"},"modified":"2015-03-18T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:51:18","slug":"oil-slump-means-break-from-tradition-in-saskatchewan-budget-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/18\/oil-slump-means-break-from-tradition-in-saskatchewan-budget-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slump means break from tradition in Saskatchewan budget: finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9997\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/oil-fuel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9997\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/oil-fuel.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/oil-fuel.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/oil-fuel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/oil-fuel-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REGINA &#8212; Saskatchewan&#8217;s finance minister is sporting brown leather shoes that he says represent the provincial budget&#8217;s break from tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Krawetz says he usually wears black shoes, but his wife bought him the new pair for the budget&#8217;s release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He says the government is facing a loss in oil revenue of around $700 million, so a balanced budget requires changes in how the province spends money.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Brad Wall has said this budget is the most challenging his government has had to put together.<\/p>\n<p>Krawetz agrees with that and adds he expects it to be his last budget since he isn&#8217;t going to seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>NDP finance critic Trent Wotherspoon presented a pair of shoes to the media that he says symbolize the government&#8217;s vanity.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition cut out the soles on a pair of black, shiny second-hand shoes to represent what Wotherspoon says is a lack of substance in government policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA &#8212; Saskatchewan&#8217;s finance minister is sporting brown leather shoes that he says represent the provincial budget&#8217;s break from tradition. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}