Budget 2017
A balanced budget for a stronger, healthier Ontario
The 2017 Ontario Budget is a balanced budget — the first since the 2008–09 global recession. This balanced budget is about more than just the bottom line. It’s about finding new ways to help you and your family.
What you need to know about the Budget
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Free prescription medications for everyone 24 and under.
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Free tuition for 210,000+ postsecondary students.
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Helping more people find an affordable place to call home.
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A $7-billion booster shot to health care.
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A proposed 25% cut to household electricity bills on average.
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A balanced 2017 Ontario Budget.
Budget in Brief
Read the Budget in Brief for a summary of the key initiatives that are laid out in this year's Budget:
Strengthening health care
Providing free prescription medications to children and youth, improving access to home and community care and reducing wait times for a stronger, healthier Ontario.
Improving education
Helping students achieve excellence with smaller class sizes, new and renovated schools and more financial assistance for higher education.
Making life more affordable
Making life easier and more affordable for Ontarians.
Creating opportunity and security
Creating opportunity for people to gain skills, for businesses to prosper and for communities to thrive.
Path to a balanced budget
Balancing the Budget means more funding for the programs and services people rely on most.
Empowering women and girls
Developing a strategy for women's economic empowerment and the Walking Together Strategy — so women and girls have equal access to economic and social opportunities.
Implementing your ideas
You chose three Budget Talks ideas that will be funded through the 2017 Budget.
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This idea is a finalist and will receive funding
Reducing and Preventing Food Waste
This idea got 3,269 votes and will receive a one-time investment of $600,000.
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This idea is a finalist and will receive funding
Improving Digital Services for Libraries
This idea got 2,764 votes and will receive a one-time investment of $1 million.
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This idea is a finalist and will receive funding
Accessing Digitized Health Data
This idea got 2,127 votes and will receive a one-time investment of $1 million.