1.0Policy Optionshttps://policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/So much for ‘austerity-light’ in Ontariorich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="xGmcVg9Fgi"><a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2019/05/much-austerity-light-ontario/">So much for ‘austerity-light’ in Ontario</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2019/05/much-austerity-light-ontario/embed/#?secret=xGmcVg9Fgi" width="600" height="338" title="“So much for ‘austerity-light’ in Ontario” — Policy Options" data-secret="xGmcVg9Fgi" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/So-much-for-‘austerity-light-in-Ontario.jpg2000700One eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting characterized annual budgets as a record of “victories, defeats, bargains and compromises.” Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government of Doug Ford, does indeed tell us something of winners and losers with its additional fiscal supports for business and erosion of social expenditures for everyone […]