Mike Crawley
This analysis of the last week’s Ontario budget examines the fairly aggressive removal of middle-class tax benefits (like the Children’s Activity Tax Credit) and the imposition of new outright charges on comfortable seniors for drugs. How far will it go? According to CBC writer Mike Crawley, the government appears to be moving to a health care system that will tax seniors for their drugs (and others services) based directly on how much they receive each year. He says the province has not seen anything like it since the days of the Bob Rae NDP government. Mike Crawley CBC
