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Mar 24 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
(THREAD) The Ford government tabled the budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year Tuesday afternoon. Despite having presented the largest budget in our province's history, the government has yet to address our underfunded public services or put an end to shortchanging.

#Onted #OnPoli
1/ In education, what appears to be a $2.3 billion dollar spending increase was actually allocated for the federal-provincial childcare agreement, making it not only federal funding, but it also won't be for primary or secondary school.

#Onted #OnPoli

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2/ In addition, we have a $17 billion backlog in school repairs that was only covered by $2.8 billion in funding in this budget, and school boards like the TDSB have less money to spend on programs because they must replenish the reserves used in COVID.

#Onted #OnPoli
3/ In 2019, education was 18.2% of the province's total expenses; that has now fallen to 17%, all while per-student funding continues to decline. No new funding for class sizes, urgently needed mental health support, or wages below inflation.

#Onted #OnPoli
4/ In healthcare, we’re seeing nothing to increase the wages of nurses and health care workers, all while still fighting Bill 124, which is possibly the greatest contributor to our understaffed healthcare sector.

#Onted #OnPoli

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5/ We’re also continuing to see the blatant progress of privatizing our healthcare system. “The budget said Ontario will spend $72 million this year on those clinics, some of which are private, for-profit centres.”

#Onted #OnPoli

globalnews.ca/news/9574336/o…
6/ Underfunding cities brings underfunded services and rising property taxes, a move making life more unaffordable. “no money has specifically been earmarked for municipalities who say they will lose out tax revenue due to Bill 23”

#Onted #OnPoli

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7/ With no new funding where it's needed, no livable wages, continuing to fund private facilities, all while the government is practically guaranteed to spend less than allocated, this budget is an attack on students, workers, and all Ontarians.

#Onted #OnPoli

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Mar 3
(THREAD) The Ford government's and the Minister of Education's lies about "historic" funding in the education sector have once again been indisputably proven. Thanks to the Financial Accountability Office, we now know $844 million went unspent last quarter.

#ONPoli #OntEd
1/ Just this Tuesday, Education Minister Stephen Lecce claimed mental health funding is up “400%” because “we recognize the demand is up”. #Onted #OnPoli
2/This is a misleading statistic, as with roughly 2 million children in our public schools, 90 million dollars equates to 45 dollars per child, proof this government doesn’t understand how doubling & quadrupling on nothing is as ineffective as it is “historic”. #Onted #OnPoli
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Oct 20, 2022
(THREAD) The Minister of Education Stephen Lecce has made it clear that his only clear agenda this round of bargaining is to destroy the public education system, vilify the workers who make keep our schools open, and blatantly lie to the public about union demands. #Onted #OnPoli
1/Lecce stated that CUPE is trying to “disrupt in class learning” with their unreasonable demands, I feel I must say we’re already experiencing various disruptions from things like staffing shortages, a very product of your underfunding. #Onted #OnPoli

cbc.ca/amp/1.6621976
2/ When you call the demands by CUPE “astronomical”, you must remember who you’re referring to. 96.5% of CUPE education workers voted in favor of a strike mandate, this translates to 96.5% of the very workers you supposedly “appreciate” supporting CUPE’s proposals. #Onted #OnPoli
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Oct 3, 2022
(THREAD) I can’t stand to hear @Sflecce claim its about the students because us students know for a fact that for your government the students have NEVER been a priority. #Onted
Last round of bargaining you also insisted that if there is to be an increase in education funding that it goes directly to students and not compensation. So explain why the following years consisted of billions in cuts, increased class sizes, and constant disruptions. #Onted
Paying full time workers a salary where they struggle to make ends meet is the greatest threat to the stability in the profession we need for a normal school year. #Onted
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Aug 24, 2022
(THREAD) Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s destructive/misleading comments & false promises of stability, investments, fairness for taxpayers are full of holes and repetition of the same manipulation and lies we heard the last round of bargaining. #Onted #OnPoli
1/ In early 2020 Minister Lecce claimed that if we’re to pour more money into the education system that it goes towards students and not compensation. #Onted #OnPoli
What have we students seen since then?

- Damaging Cuts To Per-Student Funding

- Failure To Fund Student Safety During Peak Covid-19 Resulting In The Halt of In Person For Two Years In A Row

#Onted #OnPoli
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Aug 19, 2022
(THREAD) Ensuring a “normal”, “safe” and “stable” school year for students is the only message @Sflecce continues to put out, but based off of this governments track record with education what can we expect this to mean and why do they push this message so heavily? #onted #onpoli
Firstly, what does stability mean for us students? Mainly it’s dependability, it’s knowing that the services our teachers and education workers provide will be available daily, something that’s never been as jeopardized & at risk like it has been these past few years. #onted
The Ontario government however has made it clear that they believe a normal and perfect school year for students is the bare minimum of literally just being in the building. #onted #onpoli
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Mar 6, 2022
(THREAD) I often hear the arguments that the Covid-19 related issues in Ontario I speak about such as our stressed healthcare & educations systems aren’t that big a deal because they’ve been issues before the pandemic.
The problem with this is that though they have been problems that needed fixing for some time now, we cannot deny how drastically the pandemic has amplified the severity of these issues. #onpoli #onted
toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-s-nurs…
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