Finance Minister Allan MacMaster has tabled his government’s third budget, a document that continues massive spending on health care but also gives a nod to cost-of-living pressures as the province gets closer to an election year.
In 2019, Bill 124 capped salary increases for Ontario public sector employees at one per cent over 3 years. It’s since been ruled unconstitutional, and Ontario teachers are getting a 2.75 per cent retroactive pay bump for one year of their last contract.