Ontario taxpayers have paid $4.3 million in legal fees after the province lost two court cases defending Bill 124, a wage-cap law. Premier Doug Ford’s government introduced the law in 2019, limiting salary increases for public sector workers to 1% per year for three years to help reduce the budget deficit. The law caused protests from nurses, teachers, and other public sector workers, with unions arguing it was unconstitutional.
In 2022, the Ontario Superior Court agreed with the unions and struck down the law. The province appealed but lost again in 2023. The government has since repealed the law and paid $3.45 million to the unions and $856,482 to an external law firm for handling the appeal. Opposition leaders criticized the government for wasting money on legal battles over a law they say was unconstitutional from the start.
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