Chris Young/CANADIAN PRESS Ontario Premier Doug Ford stands in an elevator at the Ontario legislature in Toronto on May 3, 2019. TORONTO — The Ontario government has only found about half of the savings necessary to meet its own budget plan, the province’s financial watchdog says. That “would be the slowest pace of spending growth since the mid-1990s,” the FAO report says. Financial Accountability Officer Peter WeltmanWeltman wouldn’t comment on how this could affect services like health care, education and social services. “That’s a significant change.” In the 1990s, former Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris slashed social services and downloaded costs onto municipalities.

Source: Huffington Post May 22, 2019 19:33 UTC