2018, Sousa released the 2018 Ontario Budget: A Plan for Care and Opportunity. In the document, the Minister announced a new drug and dental coverage for Ontarians without employer health plans, free preschool child care for children aged two-and-a-half until junior kindergarten, billions in both hospital capital funding, and hundreds of millions in operational funding. Also included in the 2018 budget was new mental health funding, new home-care funding for seniors, and new funding for developmentally disabled adults, among other initiatives. As Minister of Finance, Sousa had following agencies under his direction: Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario, Financial Services Commission of Ontario, Financial Services Tribunal, Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation, Ontario Financing Authority, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and the Ontario Securities Commission. Federal politics On November 5, 2022, it was announced that Sousa would run as the federal Liberal candidate in the Mississauga—Lakeshore by-election scheduled for December 12, 2022. The riding had been vacated earlier in the year following the resignation of Liberal MP Sven Spengemann in order to accept a position with the United Nations. Sousa comfortably won the election, defeating Conservative candidate Ron Chhinzer. Electoral record Federal elections Provincial elections References External links 1958 births Canadian people of Portuguese descent Living people Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Politicians from Mississauga Politicians from Toronto University of Western Ontario alumni Wilfrid Laurier University alumni Finance ministers of Ontario 21st-century Canadian politicians Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario