Ontario’s deficit has grown by more than $3 billion in the past few months as the province continues to face economic headwinds blowing up from the U.S.
In an economic update delivered on Thursday, the Ford government said the deficit for 2026-27 is now projected to be $16.9 billion, up from the $13.8 billion that was projected in the budget tabled back in March.
Doug’s out of control spending and the costs of backing out of his bad decisions. But never waste a crisis.
No wonder he’s pissed about increased interest rates.
From the archive: Shortly after taking office in 2018, Premier Doug Ford accused former Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne of a “coverup” regarding the province’s finances, claiming the actual deficit was $15 billion rather than the $6.7 billion projected in the outgoing Liberal government’s final budget.
Now $17B and he’s got no one to blame. He so fucked HydroOne Ontario is buying electricity from the US this winter.
But his priority is bike lanes.
Deep down, he’s just like his core base.
He has always been a bully and rumour has it he used to be a drug dealer. His brother was an actual crackhead too.
Bike lanes represent the urban left-wing in his mind. He’s unleashing his wrath on his “enemies” just like Donald.
If he had kept license validation we would have:
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More insured and licensed drivers
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Fewer hit and runs
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$8B less debt.
But hey, we’re all stupid, the Therme spa will generate BILLIONS.
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CP24 are huge Conservative and genocide supporters. We should not give their pages any views. They’ll do anything to paint the Cons in a good light, like they have done with this title.
Definitely nothing to do with Ford being a fucking grifter.
I mean, he’s a politician. I assumed that was a given.
We shouldn’t really accept thos as standard from our politicians, and saying this about Ford is suggesting that he’s run-of-the-mill.
Ford is probably the worst thing to happen to Ontario in many years, if not decades.
He has yet to pull his Mike Harris moment.
He’s had so many that no one cares anymore.
And yet he’s absolutely run of the mill now.
Who was the last politician you remember that was actually interested in making our lives better?
I wish I could say “our”, but I’ve been watching Mamdani as mayor of NYC and he seems to be a good candidate for a politician working for the good for the people.
Jack.
Everyone says that about the guy or girl who gets in if they didn’t vote for them. How many people said that about Wynne? McGuinty? Eves/Harris? Rae? That doesn’t actually say anything.
I’m not sure what the best objective metric is of assessing corruption, but I bet if we plotted Ford and family’s net worth vs. the Ontario deficit, we’d find something unpleasant.
Also, I didn’t vote for Wynne and I don’t think I voted for McGuinty. And I didn’t think that they were the most corrupt when they were in power, either.
McGuinty set the stage for major problems in Ontario, From the green belt, auto insurance and foreign students.
I would say that setting the stage is objectively less corrupt than taking to the stage and acting on it.
It’s a progression. Wynne was worse than McGuinty, Ford’s worse than Wynne, the next one will be worse than Ford. And someone will come along and say the same thing about them that you’re saying about Ford, which is the same thing that was said about Wynne, McGuinty, Harris, etc.
He was the first to allow diploma mills?