Ontario’s Liberal government has tabled a pre-election budget with spending that targets nearly every voter demographic while projecting a $6.7-billion deficit.
The 2018-2019 budget includes billions in spending on health care, child care and seniors.

And that the government says will make every day life more affordable for Ontarians.

Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli strongly disagrees.

“The Auditor General continues to tell us that even that deficit number is wrong, it’s higher than that. I’m not quite sure that burdening families for generations makes life any more comfortable for anybody,” he says.

The government says it expects to run deficits until 2024-2025.

Fedeli says the budget adds $2 billion dollars in new taxes to the people of Ontario.

The government is promising new spending on a drug and dental care program for people without coverage.

The budget also contains recently announced spending on health care and $2.2 billion plan to provide free child care for preschoolers starting in 2020.

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