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Saskatchewans latest budget projects deficits through the decade, with an eight hundred nineteen million dollar shortfall next year and a revised one point two one billion dollar deficit for last year. The budget, titled Protecting Saskatchewan, aims for a surplus by 2031 through economic growth and program tweaks, but critics argue it lacks inflation relief and fails to address infrastructure needs. The plan includes seventeen point five billion dollars in capital projects and the biggest expansion ever for nurse practitioners, but also a three percent cut in executive roles. Oil prices are pegged at fifty-nine dollars seventy-five cents per barrel, but Middle East conflicts pose external risks to the provinces finances.

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