![]() Increased class sizes, potentially resulting in over 3,400 lost teaching jobs over next four years.Scrapped over $300 million in funding for three satellite university campuses.Removed free tuition for low-income students.Dropped financial assistance for college and university students by more than $300 million.Removed $25 million from the Education Programs-Other (EPO) Fund, which will limit grants available for school programs like after-school jobs for youth in low-income neighbourhoods tutors in classrooms leadership programs for racialized students daily physical activity for elementary students and more.Cancelled Ontario's first planned French-language university.Removed $100-million budget for school repairs (due to cancellation of cap and trade).Trimmed $1 million in funding from Leave the Pack Behind, an agency that helps young people quit smoking.Scrapped funding for three supervised drug-use sites (two in Toronto, one in Ottawa).(While, the government reversed retroactive cuts, but future cuts remain) That translates into cuts in school breakfast programs, daycare and restaurant inspections, water-quality testing, pre- and postnatal care for single mothers, and detection of emerging threats to public health. Toronto Public Health would have seen a reduction in provincial funding by $1 billion over the next 10 years. ![]() Planned to cut $200 million from Public Health services, impacting 35 health units.Proposed ending OHIP’s medical emergency coverage for Ontarians travelling outside the country.Slashed the number of paramedic service providers from 59 to 10.Dissolved Local Health Integration Networks and merged them under one new umbrella body called Ontario Health.Revoked current and future funding for the College of Midwives of Ontario.Cut the Liberals’ promised $2.1 billion over four years for new mental health funding to $1.9 billion over 10 years.Cancelled the opening of new overdose prevention sites.Cancelled free prescription medication given to those under 25 through the Pharmacare program.
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