Ontario is sitting on $6.4 billion in unspent emergency COVID-19 funding as the pandemic rages, according to a new economic analysis, which shows that Ottawa is paying for the bulk of the relief effort. It disentangles hundreds of billions of dollars in federal transfers to the provinces from COVID-related measures made possible by exclusively provincial funds. It also analyzes how provinces are spending federal transfers. The analysis found that Ontario has budgeted $6.4 billion for COVID spending with no imminent plans for what to do with it. The equivalent of approximately $9,800 a person is being spent in Ontario on COVID-19 measures, the study states.

Source: thestar January 26, 2021 10:01 UTC