May 7, 1996
(Finance)

Budget Speech to be delivered May 16

Paul Dicks, Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board, today announced that he will deliver the annual Budget Speech in the House of Assembly on Thursday, May 16.

Once again, government will be making copies of the Budget Speech available through the Internet and through the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador homepage. The Internet addresses will be as follows:

• For File Transfer Protocol clients: ftp.gov.nf.ca
  
• For WorldWide Web clients: www.gov.nl.ca/budget96/

Documents will be available to Internet clients in Acrobat format. Comments will be received through the email address: budget96@fine.gov.nf.ca

Anyone with questions or who experiences technical difficulties accessing these sites may telephone (709) 729-0033 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. NST.

Contact: Susan Laite, Assistant Director of Public Relations, (709) 729-0110.