Ontario is turning over a new leaf — or at least a fresh trillium logo — with the first budget tabled by Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government.Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will release the fiscal blueprint Thursday and is expected to outline how the province will stanch the red ink.“It will be a reasonable, pragmatic, sustainable path back to balance,” Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy, who helped craft the fiscal plan, said Wednesday.“We are looking to cut … the level of spending (of) the previous Liberal government that we inherited, which was unsustainable,” said Bethlenfalvy.“I think we’re going to do it in a way that is modest and sustainable,” he said, declining to say whether the books would balanced before the 2022 election.As first disclosed by the Star, a new $89,000 government logo will be unveiled to replace the controversial “three men in a hot tub” trillium introduced by former premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals in 2006 at a cost of $219,000.Read more: Ford government’s expected child care rebate will fuel poor quality care, expert saysCop watchdog agency fears ‘severe’ financial cutsTeachers, students rally at Queen’s Park to protest proposed education cutsWhile the Tories will not be reviving the classic T-shaped trillium logo dating back to 1964, another Beatles-era icon is being given new life.The Star revealed Tuesday that “A Place To Grow” — a line from the Expo 67 jingle “A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow (Ontari-ari-ari-o!)” — will replace “Yours to Discover” on white and blue passenger licence plates.“Open For Business,” will appear on white and black commercial plates.Government and Consumer Services Minister Bill Walker said an undisclosed French-language plate will also be available for motorists.“There will be a slogan in French and a slo ...
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