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  1. Ford's first budget must fulfill campaign promises

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, April 10, 2019 Clearly, Ontario’s finances are in bad shape. With a government debt load of more than $23,000 per resident and a 10-figure annual budget deficit, the Ford government has inherited serious challenges. There’s ...

  2. Ontario government must freeze nominal spending to close fiscal gap

    Next week, the Ford government will table its first budget and Ontarians will get the clearest signals to-date of this government’s fiscal plans. According to recently-revised fiscal numbers, Ontario has been running deficits since 2008 ...

  3. Ontario—from fiscal leader to fiscal laggard

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, Sep 13, 2017 While Ontario’s current struggles with a large and growing government debt burden are widely known, it wasn’t always this way. Just a decade and a half ago, Ontario had relatively sound public finances compared to ...

  4. Ontario in the grip of short-term policy thinking

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 8, 2017 Public policy decisions are frequently biased towards short-term thinking. Governments make decisions that will affect people’s lives for decades, but must operate within a political context in which the next ...

  5. Ontario now a leading exporter of bad public policy

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, April 27, 2016 Ontario has historically been an engine of economic growth in Canada. Unfortunately, over the past decade poor policy decisions have helped reduce Ontario to an economic laggard and have-not province. And ...

  6. Are “Wynne Days” Coming?

    Appeared in Waterloo Region Record We’ve seen this script before. Higher spending. Tax increases. Persistent deficits. Growing debt. Warnings from credit rating agencies. A government unwilling to make the tough choices to turn things around. That’s the ...

  7. What Ontario Can Learn from Greece

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press and Woodstock Sentinel Review “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 Greece is ...

  8. Ontario vs. California Indebtedness

    Appeared in the Financial Post I do not want Ontario to become like California Finance Minister Dwight Duncan once proclaimed. And it's not hard to understand why, California is a fiscal nightmare. It has the lowest bond rating in the United States ...