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Le programme idéologique dirigé contre l’éducation publique se déploie à plein régime — les compressions financières se conjuguant à des changements de structures de gouvernance.
The ideological agenda against public education is in high gear—with funding cuts coupled with structural governance changes.
It bears repeating—properly funded public services do more to improve Ontarians’ lives than deficit reduction.
The government of Ontario is deliberately starving public services.
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of large sections of the Ontario economy. In a few short months, total economic activity in…
For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.
Imagine how much better things could be if Ontario just aimed to be average, rather than low, on public spending
The province spends much more money on things that aren’t priorities. Supporting education workers should be high on the priority list.
The Ontario government is underestimating 2022-23 revenues by a whopping $10 billion. Rather than recording a predicted deficit, the province is on track to be in surplus territory by the spring.
The Ontario government just declared war on the constitutionally protected right to strike, using the notwithstanding clause.
Provincial revenues are up dramatically of late—Queen’s Park can afford to bargain fairly
Ontario’s political rhetoric creates divisions where, in reality, none exist.
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