Read her lips: no new taxes. That was the message from Premier Kathleen Wynne on Friday despite a controversial accounting change that will make it more challenging for the Liberals to balance the books next year as promised. “We’re not going to raise taxes on middle-class families,” Wynne told the Globe and Mail’s Robert Fife in a fireside chat at the Ontario Economic Summit in Niagara-on-the-Lake. “We’re not going to do anything that is going to harm people who are just feeling the benefits of some of the recovery.”Her comments came the Financial Accountability Office warned that auditor general Bonnie Lysyk’s decision to no longer consider government co-sponsored pension funds as assets would affect the bottom line.

Source: thestar November 04, 2016 21:40 UTC