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1. Ontario’s fiscal update stays committed to complacency

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record There was an aura of complacency in Queen’s Park as the Ontario government released its update on the state of provincial finances. The government remains committed to its relatively passive approach of dealing with ...

2. Moody's report yet another warning sign for Ontario to act

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury A new report on provincial debts and deficits by Moody's, the international credit rating agency, is another piercing reminder of Ontario's serious fiscal challenges. Based on media accounts, the report warns that ...

3. Ontario's financial woes a problem for all of Canada

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record Lost in the current flurry of Ontario’s election campaign is the one key issue facing the province, and indeed all of Canada: Ontario’s laggard economic performance is dragging down the national economy. Due to the ...

4. Bad news out of Ontario illustrates need for a better fiscal plan

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun and Ottawa Sun The economic news coming out of Ontario in recent days has been far from positive. The province's economic and fiscal position is weak and new analysis released by the Ministry of Finance suggests its ...

5. Wynne's chance to break from the past

   Appeared in the Financial Post With the Ontario government expected to soon introduce a new budget and the province continuing to head towards its own fiscal cliff, Premier Kathleen Wynne has a chance to make a clean break from the fiscal mismanagement of ...

6. State of Ontario's Indebtedness

   The essays collected for this publication are designed to provide readers and particularly those in Ontario a better sense of where the province?s debt stands today, the expectations for the future, and warnings about the likely costs of inaction. Part of ...

7. Ontario's problem: Ontario's government

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Belleville Intelligencer, Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune, Pembroke Daily Observer, Sarnia Observer, Stratford Beacon Herald, and Owen Sound Sun Times In his recent shot at Alberta, Ontario’s premier Dalton McGuinty—who ...

8. Fiscal Choices for an Ontario Government in Deficit

   This commentary outlines the fiscal choices and outcomes that are possible over the next five months and through the rest of the government’s mandate. It is the government’s task to choose which of these paths can move Ontario’s economy and fiscal affairs ...

9. State of Emergency: Ontario's Potential $4.5 Billion Deficit

   Ontario had two states of emergency in 2003 and a third has now arrived. First, SARS arrived and led to an official declaration of emergency between March 26 and May 17. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/StateofEmergency.pdf ...

10. The Harris Government: A Mid-Term Review

    In The Harris Government: A Mid-term Review, authors Marc Law, Howard Markowitz, and Fazil Mihlar argue that the overall performance of the Harris government has been satisfactory, and award the Ontario government an overall letter grade of C+. The ...