Ontario Budget Bill Passes

Published: June 20, 2012 01:04 pm EDT

Bill 55, the budget bill of the minority Ontario Liberal Government, passed Wednesday, June 20 by a vote of 52-35 in the provincial legislature on Queen's Park.

According to a report by The Globe & Mail, all 52 Liberal MPPs voted in favour of the budget. The 35 Political Conservative MPPs voted against the budget, but it was the 17 New Democratic Party MPPs that abstained from voting that sealed the deal for the Liberal's budget.

The article states that Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has taken the position that the budget bill will allow the government to carry out its fiscal plan and stay on track to eliminate the province’s $15-billion deficit by 2017-18.

(With files from The Globe & Mail)

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