Promise much to the electorate and manage the public’s pocketbook to the politician’s advantage

BY STEVEN KASZAB

Ontario has a secret to reveal. This October, Premier Ford announced taxpayers faced a 13-billion-dollar deficit, while Premier Ford’s government had a $2.1 billion surplus. Ontario had a balanced budget for the first time in 14 years, according to the taxpayer’s alliance.

The Federal Government has been printing money for well over a year, sending these funds to various provincial governments to; fight the pandemic, establish and maintain health and safety regiments throughout the country. Premier Ford takes the accolades for this economic balancing act, and you the taxpayer actually accomplished this task. We the citizens of Ontario and Canada paid for this unexpected event.

Conservatives diligently work towards the accepted business goal of achieving a balanced budget every year. Usually, the public sector has difficulty accomplishing this feat, but through the magic of Fordian Money Management here we are, a conservative miracle. There were many ways the public sector could have devised to use the federal funds received, like: actually investing in hospital-medical new hires, solving the problems of staff shortages in the civil service and medical institutions, staffing our senior living homes properly, and paying those in the medical-essential service fields a living wage. The Ford administration promised much, but much of these funds have not yet been distributed.

It seems Premier Ford has learned a lot from Prime Minister Trudeau. Promise much to the electorate and manage the public’s pocketbook to the politician’s advantage.