Tariffs have changed Ontario budget approach, Doug Ford says [Video]

Ontario is set to table its budget Thursday and Premier Doug Ford is signalling it will include a lot of infrastructure spending and measures to stimulate the economy, saying U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be a major factor.

“We have to look at it through a different lens now, since these tariffs have been put on us,” he said Wednesday.

“You have two options in a budget. You start cutting and slashing, which I’ve never believed (in). In tougher times, you go out there, you put money into infrastructure, keep building the hospitals that we’re doing, and the highways and the bridges and the roads and the schools and long-term care homes and really building the infrastructure. We can always balance (in) a year or two.”

The province’s last major fiscal update, the fall economic statement, had eyed a balanced budget for 2026-27, but that came before the election …