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Monday June 25, 2018

June 25, 2018 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Monday June 25, 2018

The flip side of Ford’s content-free campaign: Unpleasant surprises may be in store

October 28, 2003

Starting next week, when they formally take over the levers of government, the Tories are going to have a real problem on their hands: the Liberals were historically unpopular by the time voters had to render a verdict on election day, but many of their policies weren’t. Indeed, the Liberal budget from the spring briefly seemed to make the pre-election period more competitive until voters remembered who had written the big-spending, big-deficit document. Liberal promises on child care, pharmacare, and transit spending were all extremely popular — it was the Liberals themselves that voters had tired of.

June 7, 2018

Now, Ford has promised substantial tax cuts — above and beyond the end of the cap-and-trade system — that will either (a) further burden a budget that’s already in deficit or (b) require substantial service cuts to bring the province’s books back into balance. So what’s going to give? The Tories spent years raising hell about the increase in the provincial debt under the Liberals, so big deficits are going to be awkward. But they’re not going to give up the tax cuts they promised.

That leaves service cuts. And to make cuts substantial enough to raise the billions of dollars Ford needs to find — without affecting front-line service in schools and hospitals — he will need to find lots and lots of small cuts.

June 21, 2018

(Well, technically, there’s also the possibility that the Tories will lose their promised challenge to the federal carbon tax and start receiving billions of dollars in federally imposed carbon revenues, but that would fill only part of the hole Ford’s promises have dug.)

Ford may have promised that there will be no layoffs under his tenure, but even if we don’t replay the labour unrest of the last Tory government, the fate of GreenON suggests that something else could emerge that would be difficult for him in a different way. Voters who planned major spending in their lives around the government they had at the moment — and were promised there would be no major changes to the level of service they receive — will be irritated by any serious efforts to alter its policies.

June 15, 2018

That prospect might not be enough to stop the Tories from making these kinds of cuts. It certainly wasn’t going to save cap and trade, something that, earlier this year, Ford and all of his leadership rivals unanimously promised to destroy. But public backlash to seemingly trivial cuts can sometimes surprise governments — as happened when the Liberals were caught flat-footed by mobilized parents opposed to cuts to autism therapy.

The Tories undoubtedly think they’ll do a better job than the Liberals did of running government. But changing the folks at the top doesn’t make the problems they need to solve any less complicated. (Source: TVO) 

 

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Posted in: Ontario Tagged: Doug Ford, finances, government, hazmat, Liberals, Ontario, scary, suit, toxic, treasury

Thursday September 25, 2014

September 24, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Thursday September 25, 2014Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday September 25, 2014

Province kicks in extra $74 million for 2015 Pan Am Games

Ontario’s governing Liberals say they’ll pump another $74 million into the multibillion-dollar 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in southern Ontario.

They say the organizing committee expects $25 million in revenue shortfalls and $49 million in “additional requirements.”

The government says the money will be used to provide a live broadcast of selected events, back-up ambulances and expanding the torch relay to other communities. Both the government and the organizing committee say it’s the last time that more provincial money will go toward the games.

It will also be used for satellite villages to reduce travel time for those participating in the massive international sporting event.

The Liberals says it’s a small increase to the Games’ budget, which is expected to cost about $2.5 billion in total, including security, transportation and the athletes’ village.

The Pan Am Games will run from July 7 to 26, at 34 different competition venues across southern Ontario, from the Niagara Region in the south to as far north as Orillia. (Source: CBC News)

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: Budget, Editorial Cartoon, Kathleen Wynne, Liberals, Ontario, Pan Am Games, sunken ship, treasury

Thursday September 13, 2012

September 13, 2012 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Thursday September 13, 2012

Dalton McGuinty asks students to help with ‘found’ money

 

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: "no text", Dalton McGuinty, Deficit, Dwight Duncan, Ontario, Queen's Park, students, surplus, teachers, treasury, Union

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