Throne Speech says the catch-up payments to parents would be included in the government’s revised budget when it is reintroduced in the Legislature
The Ontario government is proposing to hand out $225-million over the next two years to parents across the province to help students “catch up” after the pandemic, it announced in its Throne Speech on Tuesday.
“This funding which will put money directly into parents’ pockets, is on top of the more than $26.6 billion that the province is investing in public education, the most ever in Ontario’s history,” a text of the speech provided to reporters says. It also doubles down on the government’s plan not to resort to lockdowns to deal with new waves of COVID-19.
“For urban populations, these new powers will be especially relevant as the province works with its municipal partners to expand the footprint of transit-oriented communities so more people can live, work and play near the convenience of public transit,” the speech reads. The original budget pledged billions in additional funding for long-term plans to expand hospitals and build highways and put off eliminating the deficit for six years. The only change expected Tuesday was a 5 per cent increase to social assistance for disabled people that Mr. Ford pledged during the election campaign.
The budget’s planned increase of $4-billion for highways and roads over the next decade would bring the total spending in this area to $25.1-billion – but price tags for the government’s marquee projects, such as the proposed Highway 413 west of Toronto and the Bradford Bypass north of the city, were not spelled out.
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