The beginning of the road back to fiscal sanity:
Ontario’s provincial government is promising to audit government spending, end cap-and-trade and scrap the current sex-education curriculum in the throne speech delivered Thursday by Ontario’s Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
The speech echoes many of the Ford government’s campaign promises, vowing to sell beer and wine in convenience and big box stores, and be a “government for the people” that will cut taxes, protect jobs and lower hydro rates.
In the speech, the government vows to launch a Commission of Inquiry into the government’s financial practices to identify ways to “restore accountability and trust in Ontario’s public finances.”
It will include a line-by-line audit of all government spending to “identify and eliminate duplication and waste.”
“The era of accounting tricks and sleight of hand must end,” Dowdeswell said in the speech.