Category: Ontario budget 2022

Ontario Pre-Election Budget: Record Spending, but ‘Not Just a Vote-Buying Tactic,’ Academic Says

Some Ontario political science experts say the recent provincial budget presented by Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives was geared to score a victory in the June 2 election and that it left his opposition with little to work with. The record $198.6 billion budget includes $185.2 billion of spending this fiscal year on bread-and-butter political…


Ontario Budget Projects Larger Deficit, Billions for Infrastructure Ahead of Election

TORONTO—Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are veering off a path to balance with an election budget loaded with billions of dollars in hospital, highway, and transit investments. The document, set to serve as the Tory platform during a campaign expected to kick off next week, has the party projecting Ontario will be $19.9 billion in the red…