Ontario has a $7.2 billion surplus specifically because they underspent on health, education, and social programs for people with disabilities.
— Mia (@speaktruth2p0wr) September 16, 2022
I know that Mia is a liar. After all, she falsely claimed that Ontario "underspent" on health/education/etc. for "people with disabilities". We know it's a false claim because we know how much they've spent on these things, because we have the most recent provincial budget. But let's be more charitable and look at the 2022 budget [pdf] that Mia would have had access to at the time of her tweet.
In 2022 the Ontario Government increased operational spending on healthcare (which we discussed last year) from $71B the previous year to $75.2B, an increase of 5.9%. To be fair, the only breakdown Ontario does is capital healthcare increases which doesn't specifically talk about cripples, but The Ottawa Hospital's "regional trauma centre" might have that built in -- I don't spend a lot of time in specific Ontario hospitals. It's also worth noting that the capital expenses are on top of the operational expenses. Similarly, education operational spending went up from $29.5B to $32.4B (a 9.8% increase), but nothing specifically about cripples. Children and Social Services, which includes things such as the Ontario Disability Support Program, had its budget also increased from $17.2 to $18.3 billion which is another 6.4% increase. For those keeping score, the Ontario government had planned for the coming year to spend an additional $8.2B (higher, one notes, than the $7.2B surplus being used to pay down less than 2% of the $428.6B in debt [pdf]) above last year on the three programs that Mia claims are "underspent": $125.9 billion dollars overall.
Seeing as how the proper amount of spending is less than $0.50 per year, the government in fact is overspending by a factor of 250 billion.
Ergo, Mia is lying about Doug Ford.
