CORPORATE WELFARE ALIVE AND WELL IN ONTARIO

Ontario’s Liberal government has doled out $1.45-billion in corporate welfare to big business but has no idea whether those payments are actually creating long-term jobs or helping the economy.  Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk found the province does not measure whether the money it gives to companies boosts GDP or reduces unemployment. She said the government gave most of the money to companies it had chosen with no public competition, and had no criteria on how it picked them.