Advocates for health care, high-speed internet access and post-secondary education welcome some new investments in Ontario's 2024 budget, but say they don’t go far enough.Ontario’s Northern Health Travel Grant helps cover northerners' expenses when they travel elsewhere in the province for medical care. The portion for accommodations got an increase in the 2024 budget.
"I know full well that a lot of people that are seriously sick, that need to come to Toronto once every two weeks, once every three weeks, and pay $350 a night for a hotel room," Gélinas said.Ontario's universities face a funding crunch. Doug Ford's government is telling them to find 'efficiencies' But Susan Church, the executive director of the Blue Sky Economic Growth Corporation, said that doesn't appear to be new money.