Reports

This report provides information on spending by the Province through the end of the first quarter of 2022-23 (April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022). 

This report summarizes the FAO’s work in support of its mandate to provide all MPPs of the Legislative Assembly with relevant, authoritative, and timely information on the financial impact of government policies.

This report provides information on spending by the Province through the end of the 2021-22 fiscal year (March 31, 2022).

This report analyzes the impact in 2019-20 of Ontario families’ contributions to provincial government revenues and the benefits they received from provincial government spending. Using 2019-20 as a representative year, the report estimates how many families were net beneficiaries from provincial government revenue collection and spending, and how many were net contributors.

This Economic and Budget Outlook provides the FAO’s projection of the Ontario government’s fiscal position to 2026-27, based on information available up to March 28, 2022.

This report provides a comparison of Ontario government revenue, program spending, budget balance, net debt, and interest expense with other provinces based on Statistics Canada’s Government Finance Statistics, focusing on results from the 2020-21 fiscal year.

This report provides a projection of Ontario’s economy and fiscal position through 2050. The report assesses Ontario’s long-term fiscal sustainability, discusses factors that will affect the government’s program expenditures and revenue performance, and provides details on the FAO’s economic outlook including analysis of underlying demographic trends over the projection period.

This report provides information on spending by the Province over the first three quarters of the 2021-22 fiscal year.

This report provides an update on Ontario’s labour market performance in 2021, highlights major challenges facing the province’s workers, and includes a brief overview of the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant on employment in January 2022. 

This report examines the Province’s nine energy and electricity subsidy programs, estimates the cost of the programs over 20 years, and reviews how the programs affect the electricity bills of Ontario households and businesses. The report also identifies changes to the subsidy programs since the introduction of the Fair Hydro Plan in 2017 and estimates the cost of those changes. Finally, the report discusses how the Province plans to achieve its commitment to lower electricity bills by 12 per cent.