Fairer Ontario budget is a step in the right direction
Ontario's minority Liberal government has survived its first budget vote and will avoid a spring election after cooperating with the New Democratic Party. Premier McGuinty and the NDP reached a deal that will allow the original budget to stand while raising income taxes on Ontarians making $500,000 or more, adding $242 million to the child care sector over three years, and increasing welfare and disability benefits by 1 percent.