The Holt government has tabled its budget for the next fiscal year and it came with fewer cuts than expected. Post-secondary education dodged cuts, but they could still come in the future.
Budget document says province decided to freeze operating grants for institutions
Oliver Pearson · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 17, 2026 5:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Hundreds of students came from all over the province to protest inadequate post-secondary funding as well as a looming budget cuts that never came. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
The New Brunswick government has decided to hold off cutting operating grants for post-secondary institutions to allow time for more discussion.
The province tabled its 2026-2027 budget Tuesday, which had been highly anticipated after threats of department cuts — including major cutbacks to post-secondary education.
Instead, the province announced in the budget it’s freezing the grant amount, which is vital to funding post-secondary institutions, at the 2025-26 budget amount.
Hundreds of students made their way to the legislature in Fredericton to hear the province’s budget numbers. Emma Raphaelle, the student union president at the Université de Moncton,
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