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1. Wynne government reopens spending tap, exposes province to more risk

   Appeared in the Financial Post, May 10, 2017 The Wynne government recently tabled Ontario’s first balanced operating budget in a decade. While it’s good to see the province finally bring its annual operating expenditures in line with revenues, there are ...

2. Ontario’s budget opens the spending tap, drowns Ontarians in more debt

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, April 28, 2017 On Thursday, Finance Minister Charles Sousa tabled the Ontario government’s budget for the 2017/18 fiscal year. The government’s spin has focused on the fact that the operating budget is balanced for the first ...

3. A new year’s resolution for Ontario’s government: Reduce spending

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 6, 2016 As the new year begins, many Ontarians are making resolutions to address long-standing problems or bad habits. For Ontario’s provincial government, the appropriate new year’s resolution is clear: it should ...

4. Another warning sign Ontario may not meet its balanced budget target

   Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 2015 The Ontario government has dug itself deep into debt and continues to spend more than the revenue it brings in each year. While it has pledged to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18, a new report from the ...

5. Ontario premier's fiscal imprudence is reckless

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press and Flin Flon Reminder, Jan 25, 2015 How governments manage their finances matters a great deal. Spend and borrow too much and the result is a spiral of increasing deficits that create ever higher debt. Then, ever-more ...

6. Duncan must deal with the real problem: government spending

   Appeared in the Kingston Whig-Standard, London Free Press, Waterloo Region Record, Timmins Daily Press, Tillsonburg News, Pembroke Observer, Chatham Daily News, Sarnia Observer, Owen Sound Sun Times, and Guelph Mercury If Ontarians are to believe Finance ...