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Until the 2009–2010 fiscal year, Ontario was the only province to have never received equalization payments. In 2009–2010, due to the global Great Recession, Ontario began to receive equalization payments [16] with its first payment amounting to $347-million. [53] The equalization formula is "based on a three-year average of economic growth".
The Ontario Finance Department reported in October 2018, that Ontario's public debt per person at $23,014, had surpassed that of Quebec at $21,606 in the fiscal year 2017-2018. [18] Newfoundland and Labrador public debt per capita at $27,761, was the highest in Canada.
A year-long period of public hearings and study by an Ontario government all-party committee finished in 1986 with the decision to proceed with the project, which had then risen to $7 billion in actual and committed costs. [34] The final cost was $14.4 billion CAD, almost double the initial construction budget, even adjusted for inflation. [35]
The federal government paid 60 per cent of the policing costs, while provinces and municipalities paid the remaining 40 per cent. [29] By 1950, eight of the ten Canadian provinces had disbanded their provincial police services in favour of subsidized RCMP policing.
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A cost-benefit analysis released by the provincial government in April 2005, found that emissions from all Ontario coal-fired stations are responsible for up to 668 premature deaths, 928 hospital admissions, 1,100 emergency room visits, and 333,600 minor illness (headaches, coughing, respiratory symptoms) per year.
Ontario's current hydroelectricity stations are mainly located in southern Ontario. [27] On January 26, 2022, Todd Smith, the Ontario Minister of Energy requested an analysis report from IESO in support of a voluntary clean energy credit registry for Ontario citizens. [28] CECs are claimable credits that represent one megawatt hour of clean ...
The territory of the Pays-d'en-Haut was quite large and would today include the province of Ontario, as well as, in whole or in part, the American states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Indigenous peoples were the vast majority of the Pays d'en Haut population. [46]