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“Even Greece, the poster child for rampant debt, carried an Ontario-style debt load as recently as 1984”

Don Drummond (2012) Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services


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If Ontarians are to believe Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, next week’s provincial budget will be “the most significant budget this government has ever delivered.” Let’s hope so. With a deficit of nearly $16 billion this year and several more expected over the coming years, Ontarians desperately need and deserve a plan to return fiscal sanity to the province.