Ontario Alternative Budget 2005 Addressing The Real Fiscal Imbalance

Download or read book Ontario Alternative Budget 2005: Addressing the Real Fiscal Imbalance written by and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modest in- We know that child care is vital to parents' creases in taxes on the 10% of individuals with success in breaking into the workforce, yet for the highest incomes - those with incomes over all of the government's good intentions, the sys- $100,000 - and a partial roll-back of the cor- tem remains fragmented and ineffective. [...] The structure of the funding The record in health care and elsewhere shows formula reflects the education ideology of the that successful attempts at reform cost more in Harris era. [...] As we have al- The McGuinty Liberals made a commitment ready noted, Matthews links the need for so- in the 2004 provincial budget to build a strong cial assistance to "failures in other sectors of economy and to ensure that people in Ontario government and society, and conversely, the enjoy a high standard of living. [...] Restoring the integrity of the abilities; workers' compensation system and ensuring • establishing a minimum wage loss benefit; that employers assume the responsibility for • eliminating the deeming of wages as the and costs of the program will provide the gov- basis for the calculation of benefits; ernment with more fiscal freedom in redesign- • indexing benefits to the cost of living; ing the so [...] The jurisdiction and the authority respon- expanded service target is half of the child sible for delivery of services, and the population 0-12 by the end of year 10.