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Ontario's Progressive Conservative government spent nearly half-a-billion dollars less on health care than it originally planned last year, affecting the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Public Health units and long-term care ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic. The province's Financial Accountability Officer (FAO) examined how much of the 2019-2020 budget was actually spent, and discovered that the government underspent to tune of $3.5 billion — affecting the ministries of health, education, post-secondary education, children and social services and even the interest of debt.
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