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A partial sale of Hydro One to fund infrastructure is also stirring controversy, with CUPE Ontario pledging $500,000 to fight it.

Despite the looming strife, the fiscal plan is to reduce the deficit to $8.5 billion by the end of this fiscal year, to $4.8 billion the year after and balance the books by 2017/18.

The budget includes no new tax increases, except a one-cent-a-bottle charge on beer announced last week.

And while the numbers are important, there’s also many important policies included in every budget that will affect your day-to-day life.

Here are 20 things you need to know about Ontario’s 2015 budget.

1) A win for winter tires

The budget announces more reforms to auto insurance in Ontario, including a discount for winter tires and prohibiting premium increases for certain minor at-fault accidents that don’t cause serious injury.

2) The pension plan is coming… eventually

The budget adds a few details to the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, and though it says it will be “established” by Jan. 1, 2017, it doesn’t say when you will start seeing it deducted off your paycheque, just like the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) it’s intended to supplement. For someone who makes $60,000 a year, the plan will knock about $22 bucks off his weekly pay, a contribution employers without workplace pensions will have to match. Self-employed Ontarians may be exempt. The budget also said the province will create the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan Administration Corporation, essentially a provincial CPPIB.