It's Budget Day in Ontario

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 05:24

By Tami Jeanneret

The province's Finance Minister will deliver the spending blueprint this afternoon

Provincial officials say the budget will not contain any tax hikes or spending cuts, but there will be lots of new money being doled out to help us recover from the pandemic.

The Premier says they have two goals to protect lives and to protect livelihoods.

Last year's budget included record spending of $187 billion, and a record deficit of $38 billion.

Meantime, the Trudeau Liberals announcing federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table a budget April 19th which will be the first in more than two years and Freeland's first since taking the finance portfolio.

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