Opposition politicians slammed the Ford government’s 2023 budget as insufficient
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government tabled a nearly balanced budget Thursday without any flashy new promises.
But the opposition parties at Queen’s Park denounced the budget as insufficient for struggling Ontario families. Interim Liberal Leader John Fraser put it this way: “Ontario families, they’re not feeling the balance.”The province plans to spend $205 billion in 2023-24, up marginally from the $203 billion it spent in 2022-23. That includes a wind-down of $7.8 billion in one-time COVID-19 expenses that will be either discontinued or factored into ministries’ base budgets going forward.
“I think the government's trying to avoid showing that they're in a balanced budget position,” Moffatt said, adding that might be “a negotiating position or way to illustrate the need for spending restraints” on the part of the government.
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