TORONTO--The Eves budget, released March 27, 2003 is a profound failure, delivering funding that falls far short of what is required for education and health reinvestment, and completely ignored the deepening crises in housing, social assistance and child care, according to Reality cheque: What Ontario needs (and it's not tax cuts!).
Ontario Alternative Budget
TORONTO-- Even before the SARS outbreak, our healthcare system was under stress. While workers in the health care system struggle to cope with a public health crisis, we should not lose sight of the prob-lems in the health care system prior to the outbreak, or the reasons for those problems.
TORONTO--The December 2002 release of the Rozanski Report seemed to promise significant change in the Province's approach to funding elementary and secondary education in Ontario. But after an encouraging start--announcements of new funding totalling $610 million within 72 hours of the release of the report--the Government's response turned into an exercise in political spin, explains a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
TORONTO--Eight years after the Harris-Eves government cuts to Ontario's welfare system, Ontario's poorest are finding it nearly impossible to meet basic needs such as food and secure shelter, according to Targeting the most vulnerable: A decade of desperation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives which comes on the heels of HRDC's release of the new Market Measure of Poverty.
TORONTO--The McGuinty Government cannot keep its signature campaign commitments for public services renewal without both increasing taxes and running deficits for at least part of its first term in office, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The report, Ontario Chose Change: Will the Liberals? by economist Hugh Mackenzie, analyzes the province's current fiscal situation together with forecasts for economic growth and expenditure growth over the next four years and concludes that: