It’s odd to use a throne speech to outline the government’s lack of vision, but that’s exactly what Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government did on Monday.
While the throne speech predictably focused on COVID-19, the only major non-pandemic promise was a pledge to balance the budget relying solely on economic growth, with no spending cuts or tax increases. In other words: the Ontario government has no plan to save money and it’s counting on rosy economic projections to deal with massive deficits at some undetermined point in the future.
Ruling out a tax hike is certainly a good thing because Ontarians can’t afford to pay even more, but the government’s approach to the looming debt crisis is dead wrong. Ruling out spending cuts does a major disservice to Ontario taxpayers, as there are far too many examples of government waste.
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