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Of the $4 billion earmarked for 2016/17, only $1.6 billion will go to public transit and other municipal infrastructure.


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A GAI would likely require large-scale lay-offs of bureaucrats to achieve substantial administrative savings—a move that would obviously face strong internal political opposition.


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Ontario’s net debt has approximately doubled over the last decade and now stands at roughly $300 billion—or $21,000 per Ontarian.


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Canada enjoyed an economic and fiscal renaissance starting in the mid-1990s that lasted more than a decade.


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The Ontario government has dug itself deep into debt and continues to spend more than the revenue it brings in each year.


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If the first step towards remedying a problem is admitting that you have one, Alberta is a long way away from fixing its budget woes.


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Alberta’s budget, to be unveiled on Oct. 27, will contain the province’s seventh deficit in the last eight years, most recently projected at $5.9 billion.