Budget for Sherbrooke community projects open until Feb. 8

Earlier this year, Sherbrooke MNA Christine Labrie announced that she would be taking a different approach to the spending of her discretionary budget, the money set aside for individual members of the national assembly to assign to particular projects or initiatives in their own ridings. In the creation of the “Citizen investment Fund,” Labrie and her team have committed to letting the people decide. “We created the citizen investment fund so that there would be more transparency on how I use my discretionary budget,” Labrie told The Record on Friday. “More than that, though I’m showing that I have faith in those who participate to determine how I spend the money.” See full story in the Monday, Feb. 4 edition of The Record.