— Musings —04.27.2017 04:23 PM
Ontario Budget 2017: A Twitter take
#onbudget: balanced budget, youth pharmacare, student aid, indigenous initiatives, all good. Size of debt, not so much. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 27, 2017
— Musings —04.27.2017 04:23 PM
#onbudget: balanced budget, youth pharmacare, student aid, indigenous initiatives, all good. Size of debt, not so much. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 27, 2017
The growing debt is a nice gift to pass on to the next generation.
Budget balanced by taking monies out of surplus pensions – bad move.
There’s no such thing as a pension surplus. Ever!
I don’t believe for a second the budget is actually balanced. I haven’t seen how they reached their conclusion, but the OPC are saying there is in fact a $5 billion shortfall.
Pharmacare for under 24 – everyone included, even the kids of millionaires and billionaires. I guess this is her response to the lead balloon that was her 25% “cut” in hydro rates.
She will say anything and promise anything in order to get re-elected, then those promises fade away. Remember her promise to cut 15% from auto insurance? They didn’t even get half of that, and the insurance companies drastically reduced coverage.
Then she claims 15% was only what they hoped to achieve. Uh, no, you promised 15%
Brown is saying the Liberals are hiding the deficit by putting the one time revenue from the sales of government assets ($3 billion), including estimated revenue from cap and trade of $1.5 billion and including $500 million in pension assets as revenue, which the auditor general has poo-pooed.
Sousa is also claiming budgets up to 2020 will be balanced, despite this budget only having fiscal projections for fiscal year 2017.
Andrea Horvath also pointed out the estimated $465 million cost of the pharmacare program does not actually appear in the budgets finacial figures.
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/27/liberals-hiding-their-deficit
Warren,
So much for Wynne finding the nearest exit. (Nice to be right.)
If after this her poll numbers by the summer are still as bad, caucus could get restless. Otherwise if this cannot lead to a Liberal rebound then probably nothing can. On the other hand she may get a bounce, but could very well be temporary. I think the fact the Liberals have been in power for 15 years will make being re-elected an uphill battle, but not impossible.
Miles,
If anyone knows that caucus sticks with the leader it’s us. Our system isn’t like Australia.
The last big successful caucus revolt was against Thatcher. Won’t see that with Ontario’s Liberals.
What about Stockwell Day?