Top Line Large shift in deficit numbers, climbing to $9.8 billion in the coming fiscal year and pushing a projected balanced budget off to 2026-27. No new provincial taxes. Projected GDP growth of just 0.3% next year, a particularly anemic rate of growth...
Make no mistake: This was not a typical Ontario budget speech. It was a campaign kick-off document. The Ontario Budget speech made today by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy contained few surprises; it reiterated and reinforced the themes – and many of the same...
This afternoon, Ontario Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy delivered his first budget since assuming the role late last year. The Ford Government’s priorities are evident in the title of the 2021-22 Ontario Budget: Ontario’s Action Plan: Protecting...
In his first budget as Ontario’s Finance Minister, the Hon. Rod Phillips introduced today the 2020-21 budget and three-year fiscal blueprint, entitled Ontario’s Action Plan: Protect, Support, Recover. With the March 2020 budget postponed at the onset of the pandemic...
The pundits said Doug Ford would never be Premier, Donald Trump couldn’t win the Republican nomination let alone the White House, Justin Trudeau would not survive SNC, and Joe Biden was finished. They also declared the Ontario Liberal Party dead. Reduced to a caucus...
