Provincial spending that you don't hear much about

By Gazette Staff

October 4th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

Knowing people in the right places makes a difference.

The latest Provincial Public Accounts reveal just how much of your taxpayer dollars are flowing through the quasi-partisan Caucus Services Bureaus — a.k.a. the piggy bank for government and opposition consultants.

The Liberals and Greens are MIA –  no cash receipts — but the PCs and NDP were writing some pretty hefty cheques last year.

Just the Highlights:

• NICK KOUVALIS’s twin outfits, Campaign Research and Campaign Support, cleaned up with a combined $1,655,450 haul
• DIMITRI PANTAZOPOULOS and RICHARD CIANO’s Yorkville Strategies raked in $201,173
• Geppetto Technologies — which the PC Party previously used to deploy campaign canvassers — scored $252,657
• WARREN KINSELLA’s Daisy Consulting snagged $67,000
• Unilogic Solutions banked $395,500
• MacPhie & Co.: $185,970
• Snapstream: $101,600
• Testerdigital: $74,580
• Blue Labs Analytics: $67,000

Plus: another $1.14M spread across firms that fell under the $50K disclosure threshold (read: plenty of mystery players still pocketed public cash).

Spending by political parties – the growth is not healthy.