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A business advocacy group is calling on the Saskatchewan government to cut spending and hold the line on taxes. The Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Federation of Business (CFB) wants less expenditures in all departments except education, health, highways and agriculture. At the same time, the CFB is urging the government not to hike taxes, saying that would push jobs and investment out of the province. The organization is asking its nearly 5,300 members to send faxes of opposition to any tax increase to Saskatchewan Finance Minister Harry Van Mulligen. The CFB also wants the government to review wages of its civil servants to ensure they are in line with salaries paid in the private sector. Saskatchewan's civil servants reportedly earn the third-highest civil servant wage in Canada. The CFB makes these and other requests in a report now in the hands of Van Mulligen, who is expected to release his new budget in the first week of April. The CFB represents nearly 5,300 members across Saskatchewan.
