Ontario Health Sector: Expense Trends and Medium-Term Outlook Analysis

January 10, 2017 ISBN 978-1-4606-8965-3

This report reviews how the Province plans to achieve the health sector expense targets in the 2016 Ontario Budget, and whether the low growth rate required to achieve the targets is sustainable after 2018-19.

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Established by the Financial Accountability Officer Act, 2013, the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) provides independent analysis on the state of the Province's finances, trends in the provincial economy and related matters important to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

The FAO produces independent analysis on the initiative of the Financial Accountability Officer. Upon request from a member or committee of the Assembly, the officer may also direct the FAO to undertake research to estimate the financial costs or financial benefits to the Province of any bill or proposal under the jurisdiction of the legislature.

Stephen LeClair was appointed as Ontario’s first Financial Accountability Officer in February 2015. A career civil servant, he was most recently the Deputy Minister of Finance with the Government of Yukon and had previously held the position of Assistant Deputy Minister, Economics and Fiscal Policy with the Government of Alberta.

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Ontario Health Sector: Expense Trends and Medium-Term Outlook Analysis, Financial Accountability Office of Ontario, 2017.

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