Where are the funding gaps?

The Cost To Our Communities

In Ford’s backroom economy it is our tax dollars paying the price of patronage, while our social services erode. Ford’s misspending is a documented series of choices, every dollar misspent is diverted away from our communities; students are handed an OSAP debt sentence, emergency rooms close, we lose personal support workers, and the future of our province dims. Our communities endure, when they could thrive. Here’s what Ford’s misspending costs us in tangible terms.

Bar chart comparing the costs of underqualified SDF recipients and the 407 Fee Bailout, showing over 800 million for underqualified recipients and around 1 billion for the bailout, with a message criticizing Ford for not using funds for grants.
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What Ford's Misspending
Could Have Paid For

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Sources: All figures from published public records. View the methodology page for itemized list.