TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has backed down on retroactive funding cuts to municipalities after sustained pressure from local leaders, who warned of devastating impacts to public health, child care and ambulance services. Ford said Monday that the in-year cuts to public health, child care and land ambulance will not go ahead. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Ford is now admitting his cuts were wrong, but he should have listened to municipalities earlier. The province has said changes to public health cost-sharing would save the province $200 million a year by 2021-22. Quantifying the child care funding cuts has been more difficult to pin down.

Source: National Post May 27, 2019 14:43 UTC