{"id":33422,"date":"2025-11-28T23:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-opens-2026-budget-consultations\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:51:27","slug":"ontario-opens-2026-budget-consultations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-opens-2026-budget-consultations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Opens 2026 Budget Consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1003297263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-630x419.jpeg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"326\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-630x419.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-270x180.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-250x166.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/queens-park-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\"><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario government is <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/budget-consultations\" target=\"_blank\">inviting public input<\/a> on priorities for the 2026 provincial budget, offering online, written and in-person options to submit feedback. Suggested topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>protecting Ontario\u2019s economy and workers<\/li>\n<li>creating more jobs<\/li>\n<li>keeping taxes low and costs down<\/li>\n<li>delivering better services<\/li>\n<li>getting critical infrastructure projects built<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The website includes this warning about use of the information: <em>This is a public consultation. All submissions received will be considered public information and will be reviewed and may be used by the Ministry of Finance for consideration as part of the <cite>2026 Budget<\/cite>. This may involve disclosing some or all comments or materials, or summaries of them, to other interested parties of the Ontario government during and after the consultation. Feedback will not be attributed to specific individuals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ontario released its <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/budget.ontario.ca\/2025\/fallstatement\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Economic Statement<\/a> earlier this year, which often predicts what will appear in the budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/ontario-opens-2026-budget-consultations\/1003297262\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Ontario government is inviting public input on priorities for the 2026 provincial budget, offering online, written and in-person &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario Opens 2026 Budget Consultations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-opens-2026-budget-consultations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario Opens 2026 Budget Consultations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-33422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}