Liberals Pass Ontario Budget, Legislature Rises until October

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Queen’s Park have decided to finally welcome summer break after passing the iconic provincial budget. The legislature has announced to rise until after Thanksgiving. Liberal leader and Ontario Premier, Kathleen Wynne, finally succeeded in getting her spending plan approved by the legislature on Thursday, i.e. six weeks after they were re-elected with a majority government.

Finance Minister Charles Sousa got the same fiscal blueprint approved, which he presented on July 14, after an extended spring and summer session. The legislative assembly rises on Thursday afternoon until Oct. 20. A former high school principle and Speaker, Dave Levac, wished MPPs from all three parties to “have a safe and happy summer,” spreading a sigh of relief throughout the room as in classrooms on the last day of school. The $130.4-billion budget approved by Sousa is identical to the one tabled back on May 1, which essentially triggered the June 12 election. The budget promises to launch the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) and increase taxes on roughly 220,000 people earning between $150,000 and $514,090 a year.

The budget was passed by a vote of 56-37 in the 107-member house since both the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats opposed the left-leaning program promising $130 billion for infrastructure projects over the next decade. Regardless, Sousa told reporters that “I’m pleased that a progressive, positive plan endorsed by the people of Ontario in the last election is being implemented.” He added that “it’s time that we all enjoyed the summer.”

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