“…In Ontario, stimulus spending was attached to “a permanent reduction of the corporate income tax from 14% to 10% by 2013,” and the crisis was used to further instrumentalize education and training programs to facilitate competitiveness. 73,75 (p25) The Campbell government in British Columbia introduced personal income tax cuts and small business tax relief in 2008 and about $400 million in new temporary program spending in 2009, aimed primarily at income assistance for “individuals and families in need.” Stimulus spending also provided short-term support for training and post-secondary education and new, shovel-ready infrastructure and construction projects to “keep British Columbians working.” At the same time, the government introduced $2 billion in administrative cuts, “streamlined” nonessential government programs, and committed to returning to fiscal balance, partly by finding “$250 billion in annual efficiencies.” By 2011, the provincial focus shifted to “maintaining the provinces’ AAA credit rating,” setting up its 2013 “austerity budget” that implemented additional “expenditure management.” 76 (p38)…”