Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli tabled the Progressive Conservative government’s first Budget today, unveiling their first annual fiscal plan since being elected in June 2018. As the government holds a comfortable majority of seats in the Legislature, this was the first of four budgets the Ford Government will table.
There is a widely held view that the first, and possibly the second budgets of any majority government are the toughest and least politically popular; that the third is somewhat neutral and sets the table for the fourth one, which is the pre-election budget and often full of goodies for voters. We will let you reach your own conclusion, based on the contents and our analysis below.
