Per-person spending by Ontario governments up 373% since 1965: Report

A study by the Fraser Institute says per\u002Dperson spending by Ontario governments has grown 373% since 1965.

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The study, “Ontario Premiers and Provincial Government Spending,” by Ben Eisen, Joel Emes and Tegan Hill, says Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford’s government in 2020 recorded the highest single year of per-person spending of any provincial government going back to 1965. Excluding COVID-related spending, which drops the Ford government’s per-person spending to $10,226 in 2020, Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty recorded the highest single year of per person spending during the study period — $11,522 — in 2010, as the Ontario economy was coming out of the 2008-09 global recession..

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