It’s budget unveiling day where we find out what’s in the $16 billion budget. 
Updates will be posted here through the day: thestar.com/news/gta/2023/…
And here is all the background you need from @BenSpurr: thestar.com/news/gta/2023/…
There remains $1.4 billion (for both 2022 and 2023) needed to balance the budgets for this and last year due to COVID costs and Tory wants the feds and province to kick in as promised.
The proposed property tax increase for 2023 will be 5.5 per cent, below Toronto’s 6.6 per cent rate of inflation, Tory says. He wishes it could be lower.
Here is @jpags on the police budget: thestar.com/news/gta/2023/…
Tory said the additional 1.5 per cent increase to the City Building Find levy on top of the property tax increase is in keeping with his promise not to increase prop taxes above inflation bc they are two separate things.
Tory very salty about the idea of parking lot levies pointing to two past reports. Calls raising it now theatrics and massively complicated to implement.
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