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Ontario’s rosy revenue picture isn’t helping public services
If new revenues go to tax cuts, not public services, we will all pay the price
Report lays out costed plan to help Ontario school students recover from pandemic disruptions
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The Ontario government must boost annual education funding by $4.3 billion a year to help elementary and secondary school students…
Finding the funding
Remarks to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding the 2022-23 Ontario budget on Jan. 19, 2022
Budget outlook: $5 billion in annual tax cuts weaken Ontario’s case for federal dollars
If the provincial government needs more money—and it certainly does—then why has it been giving so much away?
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La pauvreté au coeur de l’abondance
Rapport sur la pauvreté des enfants et des familles en Ontario Download 774.47 KB44 pages L’Ontario est une province riche dans un pays riche et…
As revenues boom, Queen’s Park tightens the screws
The biggest bite will come out of health care.
A $15 minimum wage: Workers paid a steep price for the three-year delay
Minimum wage workers could ill-afford the cost of these lost wages.
Election planning: Ontario looks to Nova Scotia
Today’s Throne Speech was not a change of course so much as a change of emphasis.
Underspending at Queen’s Park should set off alarms
At no time in the last decade has an Ontario government underspent its annual targets by 6.6%.
No plans to spend $2.2 billion in found money, Ontario says
A multi-billion dollar budgetary windfall is an opportunity to tackle some of our most pressing challenges.
Ontario’s plan for education hurts the most marginalized students
As classes across the province come to an end, it is time to take stock of Ontario’s approach to public education over the past year.…
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