Debt and Deficit
78ideas | - Balance the budget (52 ideas)
- Reduce the size of the debt (4 ideas)
- Borrow from the Bank of Canada (4 ideas)
- Reduce the size of government (4 ideas)
- Set a maximum deficit limit (3 ideas)
- Stop privatization of public assets (2 ideas)
- Sell government buildings in downtown Toronto
- Increase taxes and reduce the size of government
- Increase taxes to reduce the size of the deficit
- Allow retailers to help pay down the debt by rounding up purchases
- Create a public bank to collect and lend money for infrastructure investment
- Charge a special assessment to reduce the debt
- Ontario should declare bankruptcy
- Institute tough program reviews to reduce the deficit
- Allow Ontarians to help pay down the debt
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Compensation
49ideas | - Reduce public sector compensation (32 ideas)
- Create a wage cap for the public service (5 ideas)
- Increase public sector compensation (3 ideas)
- Reduce compensation for public sector CEOs (2 ideas)
- Reintroduce voluntary unpaid time off for civil servants (2 ideas)
- Allow RRSP and TFSA payroll contributions from public servants
- Address the FSCO ruling which significantly reduced civil servants' pensions
- Reduce compensation for all MPPs and Ministers
- Tie compensation for government executives to performance
- Lower allocations of sick days for government workers
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Accountability and Oversight
47ideas | - Complaint about government (34 ideas)
- Government needs strong accountability (2 ideas)
- Properly fund accountability and oversight bodies (2 ideas)
- Submit all spending to rigorous review (2 ideas)
- Base government decisions on evidence (2 ideas)
- Review every agency which receives public funding (2 ideas)
- Require that elected officials wear name tags when out in public
- Investigate compensation at the Ontario Tire Stewardship Fund
- Increase provincial oversight of ethics of municipal politicians
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Public Sector reform
32ideas | - Reduce the size of government (5 ideas)
- Allow public sector allocations to roll over (3 ideas)
- Reduce meal, travel and hospitality expenses (3 ideas)
- Update the Drummond Report's recommendations (2 ideas)
- Reduce the number of consultants in government (2 ideas)
- Create an expert bureaucracy to administer government
- Increase the size of government, seize private profits
- Stop reimbursement to unions for negotiation costs
- Enforce the province's anti-credentialism policy
- Require receipts for expenses claimed during personal use of government vehicles
- Reform the interest arbitration system
- Use public servants as consultants to generate revenue
- Reform and reduce funding to the Human Rights Commission
- Establish cross-jurisdiction communities of practice to support public service renewal
- Create a Behavioural Insights Unit
- Run government like a business
- Eliminate provincial crown agencies
- Invest in public policy innovation
- Improve government management to reduce waste
- Give more power to the Auditor General
- Reduce the number of managers across the public sector
- Transform and shrink the public service
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Open Government
20ideas | - Seriously consider results of public consultation (6 ideas)
- Increase public consultation (2 ideas)
- Allow the public to review government's performance (2 ideas)
- Use digital tools to increase collaboration (2 ideas)
- Improve public education on government spending
- Publish all publicly-funded medical research under open access
- Seek out qualified public consultation participants
- Ban public servants from public consultations
- Create an online consultation system which allows Ontarians to vote on important policies
- Demand federal pre-budget consultations
- Allow citizens to pick and choose where their taxes are spent
- Replace government with online community voting
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Budgets and planning
16ideas | - Ensure all Ontarians benefit from government programs (4 ideas)
- Ensure all Ontarians are considered in the budget (3 ideas)
- Focus spending on essential needs
- Recruit the public service in identifying areas for savings
- Keep spending in Ontario
- Invest in healthcare, transportation and education
- Invest in education, job creation and infrastructure
- Create participatory budgeting
- Issue bonds to raise money for government priorities
- Change the fiscal year start to January 1
- Set a minimum threshold for direct spending on program delivery
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Elections
10ideas | - Implement electoral reform (4 ideas)
- Pass recall legislation (3 ideas)
- Eliminate tax credits for political donations
- Ensure only candidates with business experience can run for office
- End corporate and union donations to political parties
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Government services
9ideas | - End daylight savings time
- Create a graduated licensing system for marriages
- Tie all fines and user fees to income
- Create a single government ID card
- Turn the August Civic Holiday into a province-wide holiday
- Abolish the Land Registry Act
- Allow funeral homes and cemeteries access to online burial permits
- Tie all fines and user fee to inflation
- Combine health and driver's licenses
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Constitutional reform
6ideas | - Split Ontario into smaller provinces
- Separate Toronto from Ontario
- Endorse substantive Senate reform
- Separate Ontario from Canada, and join the United States
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Contracts and procurement
4ideas | - Separate material costs from labour costs when conducting procurement to limit hidden markups
- Ensure small businesses can compete for infrastructure contracts
- Ensure fairness in government procurement
- Promote government procurement from social enterprises
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Intergovernmental affairs
3ideas | - Get equalization payments from Quebec
- Collaborate with other governments on health promotion
- Create a free trade deal between the provinces
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Public Service
3ideas | - Increase opportunities for youth to join public service
- Ensure fairness in public service recruitment
- Prevent retired public servants from re-entering the public service
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Technology in Government
3ideas | - Make the public service paperless
- Upgrade the Legislative Assembly's technology
- Eliminate voicemail and land lines in the public service
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