Some NWT MLAs say budget doesn’t do enough to advance priorities – Cabin Radio

February 7, 2025

Some regular MLAs say the NWT’s new budget does little to advance the 20th Legislative Assembly’s priorities.

Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek delivered the 2025-26 operating budget on Thursday, which she described as “using the resources that we have for change” amid a time of uncertainty.

Wawzonek said the proposed budget represented “stability for today and tomorrow” without what she termed as “dramatic additions.”

The budget will go to a vote in the coming weeks. Cabinet needs the support of enough regular MLAs that a majority of territorial politicians back the financial plan in order for it to pass. There are seven cabinet members in the 19-member legislature, while the speaker only votes in the case of a tie.