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Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli delivers the fall economic statement

• Ontario PCs slash spending and oversight, unveil tax cut and new LCBO hours in 1st economic plan

The fall economic statement, which includes spending cuts, some tax relief and a number of steps aimed at boosting affordability, is the first budget document unveiled under Premier Doug Ford.

As part of the economic statement, the PC's have announced a plan to cut the number of legislative officers from nine to six positions.



Previous reporting below.

Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli is poised to eliminate at least two provincial watchdog positions on Thursday as the government of Premier Doug Ford launches its cost-cutting drive, CBC News has learned.

Fedeli is scheduled to deliver the fall economic statement, the first budget document under Ford, on Thursday.

It will unveil the PCs' short-term plans for spending restraint in the face of what Fedeli says is a $15-billion deficit inherited from the previous Liberal government.

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Two offices facing cuts are those of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario and the Ontario Child Advocate, according to government and PC party sources who spoke to CBC News. Both agencies are headed by independent officers who report to the legislature, rather than to the government, giving them an independent status similar to the auditor general.

Three sources say the position of child advocate will be scrapped. The child advocate has a mandate to investigate ill-treatment of children in the foster care and Children's Aid Society systems and to review government policy and practice around services to children.

The child advocate has frequently produced critical reports that triggered changes in provincial policy. The post is held by Irwin Elman, who was appointed in 2008. He has been an outspoken critic of the child welfare system and has called for automatic inquests into every death of a child in care.

One source indicated the child advocate's duties could be shifted to the provincial ombudsman's office.

Ontario Environmental Commissioner Dianne Saxe was appointed to the position in 2015. (Office of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario)
Three sources also tell CBC News that the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario is facing cuts. Two of those officials said the position of environmental commissioner will be eliminated, while the third government source said that is not entirely accurate.

The environmental commissioner has a mandate to monitor the government's compliance with provincial environmental laws, including Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights, and to report annually on the government's progress toward its greenhouse gas reduction targets. The current commissioner is Dianne Saxe, a former environmental lawyer, appointed in 2015.

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A spokesperson for Ford's office did not respond Wednesday to a request to confirm or deny the positions will be eliminated.

Ford and Fedeli began setting the stage for budget cuts in September, when Fedeli announcedthat a government-appointed panel pegged this year's deficit at $15 billion, some $8 billion more than Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government forecast in its budget in March. "The hole is deep and it will require everyone to make sacrifices without exception," Fedeli said at the time.

Fedeli's economic statement is expected to reveal what some of those sacrifices will be. On Wednesday night, Ford tweeted about one way he will try to make the cuts easier for Ontarians to swallow: extended hours for buying alcohol.

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Doug Ford

✔@fordnation
https://twitter.com/fordnation/status/1062884578988306434

Hey Ontario! Stay tuned for details tomorrow… Our Government for the People will make an announcement about expanded retail hours for alcohol sales. #onpoli


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Ford campaigned and won the election on a promise to reduce the size and cost of government. At the same time, he pledged frequently during the campaign that no provincial workers would lose their jobs with him as premier. Rather, he promised to find unspecified "efficiencies" that would save up to $6 billion annually. His party published a list of spending and tax cut promises during the campaign, but no detailed fiscal plan.

So far the main efficiencies identified by the Ford government are eliminating landlines in ministerial offices (saving $14,000 annually in Fedeli's office) and going paperless (saving $26,000 at the Treasury Board secretariat.)

Added together, those savings total about 1/375,000th of the deficit.

 

[zhangulei]

太幽默了，折腾半天，省的钱才是继承赤字的1/375000分之一？任重道远啊。

 

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Bernie Sanders unveils Stop Walmart Act
By Tami Luhby, CNN Business



Updated 6:07 PM ET, Thu November 15, 2018

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Bernie Sanders

✔@SenSanders
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1063084176440729600

The Walton family of Walmart is the wealthiest family in America, worth $180 billion. Middle class taxpayers should not have to subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year.


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Walmart, which this past February raised its minimum wage to $11 an hour, said it offers competitive wages and benefits, as well as the opportunity to advance and earn higher pay.
"We have increased our starting wages by more than 50% in the last three years and currently have an average hourly total compensation of more than $17.50 an hour," the company said in a statement. "At the same time, we've also added new benefits like paid time off, advanced job training, paid family leave and college for $1 a day."
The new legislation marks a change in Sanders' tactics for pressuring companies to raise their wages. In September, he unveiled the Stop BEZOS Act, which called for levying a tax on large companies equal to the value of the public benefits that their workers receive. A month later, Amazon announced it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, starting November 1. However, it also eliminated bonuses and stock awards for hourly workers.
In a call with reporters, the independent senator from Vermont reiterated his praise of Amazon, saying that he believes every worker impacted by the change saw their overall compensation rise, with some employees seeing huge pay increases of up to 50%.
Sanders has also called out other profitable companies, including American Airlines and McDonald's, for paying low wages.
The Walmart legislation is the latest progressive effort aimed at improving the lots of low-income and working Americans. Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who co-sponsored both the Bezos and Walmart bills, are also looking to re-introduce legislation in January to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour, from the current $7.25 an hour.
The legislation stands a better chance in the newly Democratic-controlled House than in the Senate, which remains in Republican hands.
President Donald Trump flip-flopped on the idea of raising the federal minimum wage during the 2016 presidential campaign, but his National Economic Council director, Larry Kudlow, recently came out strongly against increasing it.


Bernie Sanders wants Walmart to raise worker wages
Democrats are expected to issue a flurry of related billsafter the next term starts in January. In addition to raising the minimum wage, members will likely look to strengthen labor rights and lower health care costs.
In the current Congress, Democrats have introduced bills aimed at making overtime available to more workers, providing federal subsidies to make childcare more affordable, strengthening unions, providing paid family and medical leave and piloting a guaranteed jobs program.
While many of the Democrats' policy efforts next year are expected to wither in the Republican-controlled Senate, some elements may get through in legislation of interest to both parties, such as boosting infrastructure spending, said Ben Olinsky, senior vice president for policy and strategy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress.

 

[zhangulei]

打的加拿大零售业落花流水的美国企业，恨的我牙根痒痒。
不用怕。等着美国社会主义了，他们估计也就快玩完了。堡垒从内部崩塌。

 

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哈哈，为人民!

 

[zhangulei]

安省还是左呀，不敢动真格的。整个安省比美国社会主义都左。

 

[zhangulei]

Doug Ford's spending cuts are not as deep as many feared, or hoped
CBC | Ottawa News by Mike Crawley / 3min // keep unread // hide

Ontarians who were bracing for slashing and burning by the Doug Ford government may be relieved that no huge program cuts were unveiled in Thursday's mini-budget.
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看来这次CUT真实的证明了安省保守党的

中间偏左的

真是状态。