We’re talking about child care, and paramedic and ambulance services, and most controversially public health programs like vaccination, school nutrition, and infectious disease control. The proposed cuts were not just immediate, but retroactive. They were deep and applied to this year’s budget, already approved months ago with the expected money being spent. The retroactive cuts to a budget the city had already passed was so transparently catastrophic that council’s various factions could only draw the same conclusion: we cannot do it. In public policy terms, it means needed services are preserved for now.

Source: thestar May 27, 2019 16:07 UTC