Alternatives to the Budget: Talk It Up!

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Alternatives to the Budget: Talk It Up!

Public services have become a key focus of Ontario’s austerity budget in 2012. The government’s deficit reduction plans are premised on the idea that the deficit can be eliminated by cutting spending, reducing benefits, and limiting public services.

"Talk It Up" is a communications initiative to help ETFO members understand that there are more alternatives for getting Ontario’s economy back on track than austerity measures. The following fact sheets are meant to help stimulate discussion around the role of public service jobs with friends, neighbours, and colleagues.

Fact Sheets:

	Top 10 Reasons Why Ontario's Austerity Budget is Misguided
	Top 10 Reasons Why Ontario's Austerity Budget is Misguided

	ETFO Submission to the Drummond Commission
	CCPA Research Associates: Countering Cutbacks

Austerity Budgets Don't Work: web page | PDF file
Ontario has a Revenue Problem, Not a Spending Problem: web page | PDF file
Ontario Needs Investment in Good Jobs, not Austerity: web page | PDF file
Austerity Plans will Take a Toll on Women: web page | PDF file
Putting Salary and Benefits in Perspective: web page | PDF file
Unions - The Heart of the Middle Class: web page | PDF file
Teachers Make Ontario’s Education System a World Class Leader: web page | PDF file
Ontario’s economy ‐ Is the sky really falling?: web page | PDF file

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