The Provincial Government released their 2016-2017 budget on Wednesday.

The budget this year talked a lot about controlled spending rather than raising taxes.

Humboldt -Watrous MLA Donna Harpauer says the government did the best they could to balance the budget without raising taxes.

"I think that the people of Saskatchewan understand that the resource revenues are down significantly, it's almost a billion dollars. I think they are appreciative that we are not knee-jerk reacting and harming the economy even further by increasing taxes, but rather we are trying to control it by controlled spending."

The Government plans to borrow 1 billion dollars in order to cover costs for infrastructure.

Despite the 434 million dollar deficit, the Province decided not to raise taxes in an attempt to relieve the hit.

Harpauer explains why the Sask Party decided to do so.

"We believe that would harm the economy even further. We want to look at our spending and our programming throughout Government and try to manage it accordingly and not hurt the people working and contributing to our province."

A total of 494 million dollars is being saved to help income assistance programs, and another 16.7 million dollars will be invested to assist at-risk children, youth, and their families.

The Province of Saskatchewan's 2016-17 budget set aside some additional funds for Special Services care.

Harpauer is also the Social Services Minister for the Province of Saskatchewan.

She explains how the funding will be used.

"They'll be increased funding in the housing portfolio, and what we are going to be moving forward with is looking more to the 'Heart to House," in order to help those that are the most vulnerable. Within the child and family portfolio that I'm responsible for, we're looking at additional supports to try to help families before they go into crisis and children must come into care."

As stated earlier, the Province ran a 434 million dollar deficit this year, mainly due to non-renewable resource revenue seeing it's lowest contribution since 2003-2004.