Page 2,-The Herald. Tuesday, November 7, 1978 Federal gov’t move costs us VICTORIA (CP) — Desperation efforts by the federal government to reduce its deficit will cost British Columbia $56 million in social services and municipal grants during the next fiscal year, Finance Minister Evan Wolfe said Monday. Wolfe said in an interview that the province will be able to absorb the loss in the budget for next year without reducing any existing programs and cutting back any of the new programs already announced, The minister was al 4 meeting of = federal- provincial finance ministers in Ottawa last week when the federal government disclosed it will delay for at least one year provincial grants for welfare and local services tolalling $250 million. “This is really going to hurt British Columbia because we had signed agreements with the federal government and were ready to protced,”’ Wolfe said earlier, He said the grants have been delayed, not eliminated, and hoepfully Oltawa will make good on its commitiment in 198¢, The minister said he and his provincial counter-parts were angered at the lack of advance warning about the cutback and then the minimal consultation that followed. He said Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau of Quebec told Ottawa the provinces were being offered a choice of which way they wanted to be eaten-- boiled or fried. Wolfe said the provinces are being forced to bail out the federal government, which has genuine and severe financial problems, a time when provincial governments were @x- ercising restraint. “They didn’t listen to our warning and now we are all paying,” The cuts were proposed 45 part of a federal move to lop about $370 million from its of its effort ta reduce its deficit, The minister said the federal government agreed to a B.C. request to restrain equalization assessment grants next year, reducing - federal million. 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