Ontario Releases Mini Budget

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Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Measures

Today, Ontario Finance Minster Rod Phillips delivered what should have been his first, and the Ford Government’s second, Ontario Budget. The date for the Budget had been announced some weeks ago. However, given the COVID-19 pandemic and the current emergency that exists in Ontario and around the world, Minister Phillips instead delivered an economic update, more akin to the type of economic update the Minister of Finance tables every November.

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