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Ontario
In office
Premier
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
2,069 days in office
Ontario's 42nd Parliament
07 Jun 2018 - 03 May 2022
Ontario's 43rd Parliament
24 Jun 2022 - Present

The 2022 Ontario general election was held on June 2, 2022 to elect the 124 members of the 43rd Parliament of Ontario. The Progressive Conservative (PC) Party of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, won a majority government with 83 of the 124 seats in the legislature. The incumbent party, they increased their seat share from 76 in the 2018 election. They campaigned on a slogan to “get it done,” pledging to build highways and transit infrastructure and open up the “Ring of Fire,” a mineral-rich area in northern Ontario. Instead of an election platform, the Ontario PC Party presented its promises on its website in the form of press releases throughout the campaign.

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Promise History

1.03.27 - “Return to a balanced budget on a responsible timeframe”

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24-Mar-2021

“Ontario is projecting a $38.5 billion deficit in 2020‑21. Over the medium term, the government projects steadily declining deficits of $33.1 billion in 2021–22, $27.7 billion in 2022–23 and $20.2 billion in 2023–24.”

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05-Nov-2020

“For 2020–21, the government is projecting a deficit of $38.5 billion, unchanged from the deficit forecast at the time of the 2020–21 First Quarter Finances. Over the medium term, the government is forecasting deficits of $33.1 billion in 2021–22 and $28.2 billion in 2022–23.”

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04-Jun-2019

“Ontario’s deficit is projected to be $11.7 billion in 2018-19. […] We have a plan that will: […] put Ontario on a path to balance the budget in a responsible way by 2023-24.”

Ontario’s finances

Published: Jun 2019
Broken
12-Jul-2018
Justification

During the 2018 election campaign, Doug Ford stated that, if elected, the Progressive Conservatives would balance the provincial budget in the third or fourth year of their first term. Ontario’s current budget deficit, however, has more than doubled since the 2018/2019 fiscal year. While this deficit is largely due to the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had already been projected in 2019 (i.e. before the onset of the pandemic) that Ontario would not return to a balanced budget by 2022—that is, the end of the Ford government’s mandate. For this reason, the promise is considered broken.

“During the campaign, [Premier Doug] Ford repeatedly told reporters that the province’s nearly $12-billion deficit would be flattened in his government’s first term. For example on May 23 he said: “we aren’t going to balance the first year, maybe not the second year but we will balance maybe the third or fourth year, our goal is to balance the budget.”

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“During the campaign, [Premier Doug] Ford repeatedly told reporters that the province’s nearly $12-billion deficit would be flattened in his government’s first term. For example on May 23 he said: ‘we aren’t going to balance the first year, maybe not the second year but we will balance maybe the third or fourth year, our goal is to balance the budget.’”

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