{"id":106461,"date":"2020-11-06T18:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-ford-government-tables-a-budget-when-will-ottawa-set-a-date\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T18:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:36:04","slug":"the-ford-government-tables-a-budget-when-will-ottawa-set-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ford-government-tables-a-budget-when-will-ottawa-set-a-date\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Ford government tables a budget. When will Ottawa set a date?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Ford government tables a budget. When will Ottawa set a date?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Politics Insider for Nov. 6: Ontario FinMin Rod Phillips plans more red ink and as much certainty as possible, General<\/a> Motors recommits to Oshawa and Lisa Raitt shares a moving personal story\n <\/div>\n
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Ontario\u2019s finance minister, Rod Phillips<\/strong>, delivered a budget<\/a> in the middle of a pandemic. In his speech, Phillips said the Progressive Conservative plan \u201cprovides as much certainty as possible<\/strong> in an uncertain time, ensuring that we are always there to support those who need it most.\u201d Liberals have taken a hit for not forecasting Canada\u2019s fiscal future beyond a single year.<\/p>\n

Phillips, by contrast, offers three-year projections. His budget forecasts a $33-billion deficit next year and $100 billion more debt<\/strong> by 2023, and predicts Ontario\u2019s GDP will decline by 6.5 per cent<\/strong> this year before bouncing back at a 4.9-per-cent clip<\/strong> next year. The province\u2019s debt-to-GDP ratio<\/strong> will rise to 49.6\u00a0per\u00a0cent by 2023.\u00a0Watch the full budget speech<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new poll from Abacus Data<\/strong>\u00a0pegged PC support at 36 per cent, a seven-point advantage<\/strong><\/a> over their closest opposition. And that rival is once again the Liberals instead of the New Democrats who surged to Official Opposition status in 2018. The Tories app<\/a>ear competitive in Toronto, where they\u2019re down three points to the Liberals and nine ahead of the NDP.<\/p>\n

Keep on truckin\u2019:<\/strong> Rumours of the demise of Ontario\u2019s auto industry appear to have been premature.\u00a0Jerry Dias<\/strong>, the head of the union that represents thousands of workers, showed off a new deal that\u2019ll see General Motors<\/strong> re-open its assembly plant<\/a> in Oshawa\u2014and build the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra. The investment clocks in at $1.3 billion<\/strong>, which builds on Ford\u2019s announcement last month of a $1.8-billion plan<\/a> to build electric vehicles in Oakville (with fed-prov assistance). Dias claims the new shift will create more than 2,000 jobs<\/strong>. Flavio Volpe, the head of the auto parts manufacturers association, credited new NAFTA\/CUSMA\/USMCA provisions for the flurry of spending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Days after a terrorist attack in France that authorities have blamed on extremists who were enraged by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed appearing in the pages of satirical mag\u00a0Charlie Hebdo<\/em>,\u00a0Justin Trudeau<\/strong> offended much of France by supporting limits on free speech. Recall his words: \u201cWe owe it to ourselves to act with respect for others and to seek not to arbitrarily or unnecessarily injure those with whom we are sharing a society and a planet.\u201d The PM planned a phone call<\/a> with French President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> yesterday to attempt to smooth things over.<\/p>\n

Your daily COVID update:<\/strong>\u00a0Every day, Patricia Treble is watching the latest developments in Canada\u2019s battle against the second wave<\/strong> of the coronavirus. Yesterday, she marked a milestone and a troubling trend.<\/p>\n

Another day, another milestone. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Canada was identified on Jan. 25, more than 250,000 Canadians have been infected with the disease, including 3,334 on Wednesday. The current growth of the pandemic is occurring at a speed nearly double that of the first wave in the spring. In the past week, Canada\u00a0has added an average of 3,267 cases each day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt<\/strong> posted a moving series of tweets<\/a> about her husband, Bruce, who suffers from young onset Alzheimer\u2019s<\/strong>. He usually rises well before sunrise, she said, \u201cbabbling, cursing, shining flashlights around the room, turning on the overhead lights, growling.\u201d She posted a video<\/a>\u2014with a bit of foul language\u2014from just such a morning. \u201cWhen he does go to sleep at 7:30 pm (I\u2019m grateful) that\u2019s when I go back to work to finish up the day. I can\u2019t work<\/strong> unless Bruce has a caregiver or is sleeping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every major American network sounds like a broken record at this point as key states in the presidential election remain too close to call more than three days after polls closed. But you can stay up-to-date on every development on our\u00a0live results page<\/strong>.
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