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If the N.L. budget was $1: A loonie look at our finances

To make the N.L. budget easier to understand, let's imagine the whole thing was just one dollar instead. Here's how our budget loonie would break down.

Let's make the budget easy to understand by shrinking it down to a loonie

$8,098,067,041.

That's the top-line number in Newfoundland & Labrador's 2020 provincial budget, and it's a big one to wrap your head around.

So let's make things simple: imagine the entire $8.1-billion budget was just one dollar instead. Check out this video for a loonie look at where our province's cash comes from, and how it's spent.

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