FREDERICTON (CNB) -- The provincial government is taking the next steps toward greater self-sufficiency with the release of the 2007-2008 budget, focusing on the priorities of health care, education, senior care and energy conservation. Finance Minister Victor Boudreau delivered the budget speech today at the Legislative Assembly.

"Today's budget marks the first budget of our four-year mandate, and we want to show New Brunswickers that we will be a government of action," Boudreau said.

"A government of action is a government that looks to the future and does what is right for all New Brunswickers. Our first step toward this goal was to bring revenues and spending into balance, and that is what our 2007-2008 budget is: a transactional budget which lays the groundwork for future transformational change."

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