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  1. Simply balancing Ontario’s budget won’t stop debt surge

    Ontario’s fall economic and fiscal statement delivered by this week Finance Minister Rod Phillips reveals a slower process towards budget balance. Revenue in 2019-20 will be $155.8 billion compared to $153.7 billion for the previous year, ...

  2. Fiscal headwinds heighten need for spending reductions in Ontario

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, June 19, 2019 Nobody said governing was easy. On fiscal policy, the Ford government has learned this lesson the hard way, as it inherited a daunting budget deficit and faces headwinds that will make eliminating that deficit ...

  3. Ontario’s Deficit Reduction Strategy Mirrors Previous, Unsuccessful Attempts

    This study analyzes the first budget of the new Progressive Conservative government in Ontario, tabled in early April 2019, to assess the extent to which it reflects either a fundamental shift in fiscal policy from the policies of the Ford government’s ...

  4. Fraser Forum- Spring 2012: Avoiding a Crisis: Fixing Onario's Deficit

    In this issue: A credible 2-year plan to balance the budget by Charles Lammam and Niels Veldhuis The Ontario government predicts that it will be running a decit until 2017/18 but with the right spending cuts, it could have a balanced budget within 2 years ...