— Thomas Dye (1972)
Government priorities
Protect Ontario: The Government of
Ontario’s plan to build a more competitive
and self reliant economy due to recent
economic threats (i.e., tariffs).
Budgets and funding decisions
Ontario’s 2025 Budget projects over
$200 billion in spending, reflecting policy
choices about public services, infrastructure,
and social programs.
Governments must make decisions while balancing limited time, financial resources, and political constraints. Therefore, they must choose goals and decide how to solve them. This means policy decisions are about what problems matter the most, what goals to pursue, which solutions are realistic, and what tradeoffs are acceptable.
Modern policy challenges are complex, difficult to solve, and there is often no single correct answer.
Examples include:
Housing affordability
Healthcare system pressures
Income inequality
Climate change
1. Agenda-Setting
