Christopher Holz
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Ontario Budget 2024 Analysis
Ford government shifts course with $214 billion to deal with political and economic challenges Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy presented the 2024 Ontario Budget with a focus on making investments on “Building a Better Ontario” in three ways: significant infrastructure investments over the next decade, keeping costs down for people (or really, key voter segments), and…
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Let’s try this again: The Ford Government’s Second Cabinet Shuffle
There has been a fair amount of turmoil in the Ontario Ford government the last few weeks, and certainly the last 48 hours, with the resignation of two additional Cabinet Ministers – one related to the Greenbelt scandal, and the other leaving politics (for now) to take a position in the private sector. So far,…
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Ontario Budget 2023: A Budget for Uncertain Times
The Ford government released its 2023 Fiscal Plan with very little of the “pre-conditioning” announcements that have been de rigueur for governments of all stripes the last two decades. Indeed, until yesterday morning’s papers, there’s been nary a whisper, hint or smoke signal as to what Finance Minister Bethlenfalvy had in store for Ontarians. Well, it’s…
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What happened?: Analysis of the 2022 Ontario Election and its meaning for the parties
In one of the strangest elections in recent Ontario history, voters gave Doug Ford’s Conservatives a resounding victory with an even stronger majority in the Legislature at 83 seats. While the election night results were stunning for the Conservatives, it was a significant setback for the NDP which lost almost a quarter of its caucus (reduced…