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The provincial budget will show a $1-billion shortfall in resource revenue.

“You’re going to see from last year’s budget to this year’s budget, it’s approximately a billion dollars that we’ve had a reduction in non-renewable resource revenues,” said Saskatchewan’s Finance Minister Ken Doherty.

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The budget will be made public Wednesday.

Doherty admitted “that’s a big hole to fill” and said it has prompted the government to make some decisions.

“You’re going to see, is that government has had to make some decisions with respect to where we’re going to end up with respect to a deficit in this coming fiscal year,” he said.

When the last budget was passed, natural resource revenue made up about 17 per cent of the province’s total revenue. When third-quarter financial updates were made available, it had dropped to 13 per cent. On Monday, Doherty indicated those resources will only be making up around 11 per cent of provincial revenue.