WINNIPEG - Highlights from the Manitoba budget tabled Tuesday:
Highlights from the Manitoba budget. (CP)
Provincial gas tax increased by 2.5 cents a litre; revenue to be invested in roads, bridges and infrastructure. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Vehicle registration fees increased by $35 a vehicle. (ERIC LALMAND/AFP/Getty Images)
User fees increased by a total of $7 million for land titles, birth, marriage and death certificates. (PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Tobacco taxes increased by 63 cents a pack. (GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images)
Provincial sales tax expanded to include some forms of insurance, cosmetic services such as pedicures, haircuts and tattoos. (Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images)
$75 million to be raised through unspecified sale of government assets. (Alamy)
Sunday shopping hours to be loosened from current 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. New hours to be in place by Boxing Day. (Getty)
$56 million taken out of rainy-day fund. Projected deficit of $460 million. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
Budgets in 10 smaller government departments to be frozen or cut. (CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Posted: 04/17/2012 4:22 pm Updated: 04/20/2012 10:53 am