Welcome again to Trillium Speak, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s staff of journalists on the Ontario Legislature.
Each Sunday, Scott Sexsmith sits down with considered one of our staffers at The Trillium to speak in regards to the week that was at Queen’s Park — and the week forward.
On the present immediately is Editor-in-Chief Jessica Smith Cross, who quarterbacked our in-depth protection of the Ford authorities’s newest price range.
Uncertainty was the theme this 12 months, with Donald Trump’s tariffs looming massive. Amid all of the unknowns, the deficit for the fiscal 12 months that started in April is predicted to extend to $14.6 billion — up from the $4.6 billion predicted in final 12 months’s price range.
Highlights embody as much as $5 billion for a brand new Defending Ontario Account, which can present “rapid 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 price range protection HERE.
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Passionate and plugged in, The Trillium delivers the most important political headlines of the day whereas unpacking complicated coverage adjustments and digging deeper into key points that impression each Ontarian. Our dogged journalists additionally hold a detailed watch on legislative debates, query interval, public appointments, lobbying exercise and regulatory proposals.
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