Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, NDP make no promises to balance Ontario budget [Video]

More than halfway through Ontario’s snap election campaign, the province’s major parties are staying silent on whether they have any plans to balance the budget if they form government.

In the opening two weeks of the campaign, the Progressive Conservatives, Ontario Liberals and NDP have all unveiled a series of high-cost promises.

The PCs have pledged to build a new tunnelled expressway under Highway 401, while the Ontario Liberals are promising a middle-class tax cut. The NDP has pledged to increase the school repair budget by more than $800 million every year.

But how those promises will impact Ontario’s bottom line is something of a mystery.

None of the parties directly answered questions from Global News about whether they had plans to balance Ontario’s $214-billion-plus budget at any point in the next four years.

“Since 2018, our PC government has added $60 billion in revenue to Ontario’s economy without raising a single tax on the …