Thursday’s Ontario budget is an ideas explosion, but that’s no surprise from a Progressive Conservative government that has been working overtime since it was elected. The party that ran on a short, simplistic platform has now put forward a four-year plan that touches every conceivable area of government activity. That’s still a whack of money, but quite a bit less than the $13.5 billion the PCs said they expected. This is not a balanced budget, in the fiscal sense, but it’s a politically balanced budget. There is limited public enthusiasm for a two-year slash to balance the books or a budget that makes everything worse.

Source: National Post April 11, 2019 20:26 UTC