Ont.'s $17B COVID fund is a substantial plan but will it be enough? | Opinion

Thursday, March 26, 2020
Ont.'s $17B COVID fund is a substantial plan but will it be enough? | Opinion | Yellow State
By any reasonable measure, Ontario’s commitment to spend $17 billion fighting COVID-19 is a substantial plan to attack the crippling health and economic costs of the pandemic. The commitment represents about 10 per cent of the provincial budget, and will more than double the deficit, to just over $20 billion. The frightening part is that the massive new spending is little more than an educated guess as to how much Ontario will really have to...
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