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26 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Ontario is sitting on $6.4 billion in unspent emergency COVID-19 funding as the pandemic rages, according to a new economic analysis, which shows that Ottawa is paying for the bulk of the relief effort. Why aren't provinces using this money? torstar.co/Yg7250Diu4S
Ontario is one of six provinces that have left billions on the table, moneys earmarked and urgently needed for health care, long-term care, housing and essential workers, states the study, released Tuesday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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The equivalent of approximately $9,800 a person is being spent in Ontario on COVID-19 measures, the study states. Of those dollars, 94 per cent comes from Ottawa and six per cent from the provincial government.

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“The heavy lifting so far was overwhelmingly federal, either through direct spending or new transfers to the provinces,” states the study, titled “Picking up the tab: A complete accounting of federal and provincial COVID-19 measures in 2020.”

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The analysis found that Ontario has budgeted $6.4 billion for COVID spending with no imminent plans for what to do with it.
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