According to the "Globe and Mail", "constitutional experts and politicians of all parties" criticized her decision as a violation of the sanctity of the judicial process as Attorney General. Lindsey Park was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Attorney General in June 2018. In August, Mulroney announced that the Ontario government would be "launching a constitutional challenge" against the federal carbon price, saying that the tax was "unethical and unfair." In June 2019, Premier Ford named Doug Downey, who was had been appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance in June 2018, to replace Caroline Mulroney as Attorney General. In the fiscal year 2019, the publicly funded Legal Aid Ontario will receive $133 million less than previously, representing a funding cut of 30 per cent, as part of the Ford government's deficit cutting plan, presented in the April 2019 budget. On September 11, 2019, Chief Justice of Ontario George Strathy said that the "cuts to Legal Aid Ontario will force many people to self-represent...What we judges can say is that reducing legal representation for the most vulnerable members of society does not save money. It increases trial times, places greater demands on public services, and ultimately delays and increases the cost of legal proceedings for everyone." The Treasury Board president, who was appointed in June 2018, is Peter Bethlenfalvy, and his Parliamentary Assistant is MPP Stan Cho, who was also appointed at that time. When MPP Fedeli released the spring 2019 budget, Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy said that cuts to the "unsustainable level of spending" would be made in a "reasonable, pragmatic, sustainable path back to balance" but he declined "to say whether the books would balanced before the 2022 election." The Office of the Provincial Controller Division, provides advice to the Treasury Board Secretariat on financial management and accounting. Ontario's financial watchdog, the Financial Accountability Office (FAO) is an independent agency that provides fiscal, financial and economic analysis costs and benefits of potential legislation to the Province. According to "CBC News", Ford had been promising in the months just before the June election, to provide a "fully costed campaign platform". On May 30, 2018, just before the election, Ford posted their "final plan" "overnight" on the PC website, "For The People: A Plan for Ontario." "CBC" said that the platform did not "include a fiscal outlook", nor did it provide details on how Ford would pay for the campaign promises if elected, which included cutting "$6 billion" inefficiencies in the government, cutting taxes for the "middle income bracket and businesses", "reduc[ing] the price of gasoline by 10 cents per litre" while providing "hundreds of millions of dollars for various infrastructure projects.