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Queen's Park in Toronto where the 2024 Ontario Budget was presented in March

2024 Ontario Budget spends big on infrastructure as province’s fiscal health weakens

If last year’s budget was about restraint, the prevailing theme at Queen’s Park yesterday was that the $214 billion 2024 Ontario Budget  was one designed with fiscal balance in mind. Specifically, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives made it clear leading up to the budget announcement that while they weren’t prepared to make particularly ambitious new spending […]

2021 Ontario budget offers billions in relief for hard-hit businesses

Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy promised to table a provincial budget that would do what it takes to carry the province through the final stages of COVID-19—and the 2021 Ontario budget lives up to the promise of continued major spending commitments. The proposed package would see Queen’s Park spend $173 billion in 2021-22, up from […]