Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services

Chapter 20: Intergovernmental Relations
The province is in the process of uploading social assistance benefit costs as agreed through
the PMFSDR. Municipal representatives recognized through the PMFSDR that the OMPF
would decline to reflect the reduction in municipal costs associated with the provincial uploads.
More specifically, they agreed that the OMPF would decline to $500 million by 2016, when
the social programs component of this grant would be completely phased out. In 2012, the
province will provide municipalities with total ongoing support of about $3.2 billion (see
Table 20.8).
TABLE 20.8 Ongoing Support for Municipalities
($ Millions)
Funding Programs (e.g., OMPF) $583
Projected value of the uploads committed to
$1,056
through the PMFSDR (ODB, ODSP, OW, court security)
Other Uploads (OW – Admin; Public Health;
$1,548
Land Ambulance; Provincial Gas Tax)
Total $3,187
The figures in this table reflect the province’s ongoing support to municipalities, which includes provincial uploads of municipal social assistance benefit
programs costs (ODB, ODSP, Ontario Works benefits, and additional funding for Ontario Works Administration costs), court security and prisoner
transportation costs, OMPF/CRF, provincial gas tax funding, public health and land ambulance. The figures do not include other transfers, such as the
provincial share of social program costs. In addition, these values do not capture one-time infrastructure investments.
Source: Ontario Ministry of Finance.
This support, in addition to the OMPF and provincial uploads committed to through
the PMFSDR, includes funding to maintain the provincial share of public health and land
ambulance costs, as well as gas tax funding — an increase of $2.2 billion since 2003
(see Chart 20.12).
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