The Ontario 2018 election thread

[robkelk]

I forgot to mention last week: the current party in power has proposed a budget. It's typical in Canada that in an election year, the budget is essentially the governing party's re-election platform.

They want to spend their way out of debt, running deficits over the next six years (which would be longer than the next mandate), cutting taxes for the people who usually vote for them and raising taxes for the people who usually don't. They want to provide universal dental care (at amounts that wouldn't pay for a single cleaning each year, let alone any serious dentistry) and senior care ($750 a year if you still live at home, in a market where $1200/month rents are considered inexpensive), and free daycare for every child over 2.5 years old (even Quebec charges $7.50 a day for daycare, and everybody else in Canada says that's only possible because Quebec gets federal money from other provinces to help balance their books), along with some other promises that actually appear to be well-thought-out if the money was available for them.

Oh, yes - this particular party has a track record of not keeping their big-ticket election promises.