WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is cancelling a plan to have former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge review the province's balanced-budget law.

Premier Brian Pallister says the cancellation will not cost taxpayers any money, and the review will be done by Manitobans.

The former NDP government announced the plan to hire Dodge several weeks before it was defeated by the Tories in the April 19 provincial election.

It was one of many promises made leading up to the election that Pallister says were expensive and not thought out.

Pallister has already cancelled other NDP promises, including the hiring of former Quebec Premier Jean Charest to look at relocating rail lines in Winnipeg.

Pallister says Charest has kindly returned a cheque worth tens of thousands of dollars because he had not yet done any work on the project.