Inside Ford's $48+ Billion Tax-Funded Funnels
From transit overruns and insider deals to legal battles they knew they'd lose, Doug Ford's government has built a system where insiders win and everyone else waits longer in ERs, classrooms, and shelters. These are your tax dollars. These are documented facts. This tool belongs to your community.
Where Ford's $48+ Billion Really Goes
Every dollar on this list came from you. Click any category to see specific line items, sources, and what your community lost in return.
Sources: FAO, Auditor General of Ontario, CBC, Globe and Mail, government records. Full source links available for every line item.
What Each Category Means
Plain-language definitions and a real example for each type of tax-funded funnel, so you can explain it at a town hall, union meeting, or kitchen table.
What Ford's Waste Could Have Built for You
Select a waste category or specific item and see what that money could have funded instead — nursing positions, shelter beds, ODSP increases, children's aid, and more. Use this for deputations, council meetings, and community presentations.
Trade-off calculations based on published program costs, FAO estimates, and collective agreement data. These are one-to-one dollar comparisons, not hypotheticals.
How Fast Ford's Waste Is Piling Up
The $48+ billion isn't a one-time mistake. Structural revenue losses and ongoing cost overruns mean this number keeps growing every day, every hour, every minute Ford's government is in power.
Annual recurring losses alone — plate fee cancellations, gas tax cuts, cap-and-trade cancellation, 407 toll giveaways — take billions off the table before the budget even starts. The longer this government is in power, the bigger the hole they dig, and the harder it becomes to repair our public services.