VIDEO: Trump looms massive in Ford authorities’s newest funds

Welcome again to Trillium Discuss, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s staff of journalists on the Ontario Legislature. 

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On the present right this moment is Editor-in-Chief Jessica Smith Cross, who quarterbacked our in-depth protection of the Ford authorities’s newest funds.

Uncertainty was the theme this yr, with Donald Trump’s tariffs looming massive. Amid all of the unknowns, the deficit for the fiscal yr that started in April is predicted to extend to $14.6 billion — up from the $4.6 billion predicted in final yr’s funds.

Highlights embody as much as $5 billion for a brand new Defending Ontario Account, which is able to present “speedy liquidity aid” for tariff-hit companies after they’ve exhausted all different authorities helps. One other $5 billion will go into the province’s infrastructure financial institution, the Constructing Ontario Fund.

You’ll be able to learn all our detailed funds protection HERE.

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