Manitoba's new finance minister has tabled the new Tory government's first budget.
Within it is a pledge to spend $1.8-billion on strategic infrastructure, like roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, and flood protection.
Finance Minister Cameron Friesen says the government is also undertaking an initiative to study how it invests in infrastructure.
"We're talking as a government in broad themes about the savings that come from innovation and from aligning function and finding duplication and waste, and I believe that this applies as well to infrastructure."
The Tories are promising to balance the budget in eight years. This year's budget projects a reduction to the province's core deficit of $122-million compared to last year.
