FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 4, 2024
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario’s Liberals know that families are struggling, yet instead of helping, Doug Ford is giving away $1 billion to his friends and insiders.
“A billion dollars can transform communities, yet Doug Ford chose to recklessly spend it on getting booze in big-box stores a year early. Once again, he’s favouring wealthy insiders while ordinary Ontarians continue to struggle,” stated Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals, today as she highlighted alternative, impactful ways to spend $1 Billion.
“Ontario deserves better, it’s time for change,” Crombie asserted.
Here are twelve $1-billion investments that could make a difference in people’s lives, rather than just enriching Doug Ford’s friends:
- Hire 13,260 new nurses or 10,500 teachers
- Build a brand-new hospital
- Build 7,875 affordable housing units
- Double funding for school repairs
- Cut the small business tax rate in half for two years
- Make homes more affordable by delivering a 25% rebate on Development Charges for a year
- Reinstate GO train service between Toronto and London
- Deliver two-way all-day GO service between Toronto and Niagara Falls
- Widen the rest of Highway 69 in northern Ontario
- Boost wages for 147,000 PSWs to $25 / hour
- Provide 300,000 Ontarians with a 50% rebate for installing heat pumps
- Install 7,000 fast, public EV chargers for Ontario drivers
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Press Secretary, Ontario Liberal Party
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