Ontario residents can expect service cuts next year as the new Liberal government struggles to cope with a multibillion-dollar deficit and move ahead with the promises that helped propel the party to office, Premier Dalton McGuinty said today.
McGuinty's comments came after a maiden throne speech that reiterated much of his election platform and also warned those in the province's education and health sectors not to ask for too much money.
"If we can't attack this deficit, we're going to be in serious trouble," McGuinty said.
"We're going to consider some ideas which to this point of time might have been on the list of the unmentionables, those things that might be unthinkable."
Despite initially refusing to rule out tax hikes to control the $5.6-billion deficit, McGuinty was later categorical.
"We're not going to raise taxes," he said in an interview. "That's just not on the table."
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