Liberal MLA Donald Arseneault said the provincial government should review its fine-sharing program. (CBC)

The Liberal Opposition is supporting a call from Fredericton’s deputy mayor for the provincial government to live up to an agreement on sharing money from municipal fines and tickets.

The provincial government is supposed to allow most municipalities with their own police forces to keep 50 per cent of the revenue from fines and tickets.

But Fredericton Deputy Mayor Stephen Chase said this week the provincial government is performing a “cash grab” on money owed to the capital city.

Fredericton should have received more than $237,000 from fines in 2011, but the provincial government only returned $35,000, according to Chase.

Liberal MLA Donald Arseneault, the opposition’s finance critic, said the provincial government is treating municipalities unfairly.

"What they are doing is downloading on New Brunswickers or downloading on the municipalities,” Arseneault said.

Arseneault is joining Chase in calling for Premier David Alward to step in and review the fine-sharing program.

Chase said the Alward government needs to sort this out and give municipalities the money they need, since they are the ones collecting it.

“When I look at inequity like this I find that it's something that should be redressed,” he said.

No one from the provincial government was available to respond to Chase's complaints.

Chase said his next step will be to connect with councillors in other municipalities also covered under the same fine-sharing program with the province. He hopes they will help his lobbying effort.