After the Budget breakfast due on Friday at Scarboro

by GEORGE KAGAME


A panel of Scarborough MPPs and the Toronto Board of Trade along with business community representatives will this Friday 28th share their perspectives and answer questions about the $8.7 billion provincial operational budget due to be released on Thursday afternoon.

MPPs that will attend the breakfast are Gerry Phillips, chair of cabinet, Brad Duguid, minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Margaret. R. Best for Health, Wayne Arthurs and Lorenzo Berardinette and Bas Balkissoon. The provincial legislators will discuss the budget, its implications on the local businesses during the annual ‘After the Budget Breakfast’ event at Scarboro Golf and Country club on Friday beginning at 7.30 a.m.

Among the issues set to be tabled at the two hour debate include a 4 percent tax increase on home owners, hiring new city councils employees and a hike in the TTC fares.
The budget breakfast discussion is open to the public at a subsidized fee. Members are required to pay $25 and non members $40.