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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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The Cognitive Dissonance of the 2023 Fiscal Update
Not so very long ago when “Fall Economic Updates’” were added to the Parliamentary calendar, these short “Updates” on the fiscal situation heralded a new transparency around the nation’s finances. “Updates” then morphed into “mini-budgets”, providing the Government of the day an opportunity to pat itself on the back and to offer up pre-holiday goodies. At…
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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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Cabinet Jenga on The Rideau
Refashioning a Cabinet mid-way through a Government’s mandate is not unlike a game of Jenga. Something’s gotta give to get things moving: a retirement, a demise (physical or political) or expanding the size of the Cabinet to add new Cabinet-level leadership around a pressing issue. Inevitably, Ministers are ditched (deservedly or not) so that someone…
