Some Ontario political science experts say the recent provincial budget presented by Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives was geared to score a victory in the June 2 election and that it left his opposition with little to work with.
The record $198.6 billion budget includes $185.2 billion of spending this fiscal year on bread-and-butter political items, such as more infrastructure, jobs and skills training, health care, home care, and public transit. Only $6.9 billion of that $185.2 billion is allocated to COVID-19 response.
Scott Edward Bennett, professor of political science at Carleton University, says the budget offered no vulnerable flank for the NDP and Liberals to strike.
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