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  1. Ford government must prepare for post-COVID spending cuts

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 5, 2020 Recently, RBC Economics published new estimates of this year’s deficits and debt accumulation for all 10 Canadian provinces. The news was predictably grim. According to forecasts, all provinces will run large ...

  2. Taxpayers likely to feel city hall’s COVID cash crunch

    Municipalities in Ontario are reeling from the pandemic. Some have announced large drops in revenues. Toronto, for example, projects a $1.5 billion loss in revenues in 2020 if there’s a three-month lockdown followed by a six-month ...

  3. Ontarians shoulder provincial government debt—and big chunk of federal debt

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, January 23, 2020 It’s widely known that the Ford government is fighting a big budget deficit and mounting debt. But it’s not just provincial government decisions that affect how much new government debt falls on Ontarians. The ...

  4. Ford government’s upcoming second budget should include real fiscal reform

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 15, 2020 It’s no secret that Ontario faces a large debt problem. At $24,000 per Ontarian and climbing, Ontario’s in a deep hole. That, combined with the absence of plan to meaningfully reduce the province’s debt burden ...

  5. Ford government must get serious about reducing government debt

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 8, 2020 Throughout the 2010s, then-premier Kathleen Wynne’s government repeatedly said the goal was to return the province’s fiscal position back to where it was before the 2008/09 recession. Specifically, that meant a ...

  6. Controlling government wages crucial to Ford’s deficit-reduction plan

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 11, 2019 It’s no secret that Ontario faces challenges with its annual operating budget deficit and growing government debt. Last year, the deficit clocked in at $7.4 billion. Another deficit is forecasted for 2019/20, ...

  7. More money from Ottawa the wrong solution to Ontario’s fiscal challenges

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 4, 2019 Ontario premier Doug Ford used a recent meeting of premiers to encourage his counterparts to join him in pressing the Trudeau government for an increase in cash transfers to help the provinces cope with rising ...

  8. How the Ford government can promote economic freedom in Ontario

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, September 18, 2019 Recently, the Fraser Institute published its annual Economic Freedom of the World report. The study measures the extent that policies in countries around the world support economic freedom. Economic freedom ...

  9. Ford’s former finance minister proffers sound advice for his successor

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, June 26, 2019 Last week, Premier Doug Ford announced a major cabinet shuffle in Ontario. Among the most important moves was the removal of Vic Fedeli (pictured above) as finance minister, to be replaced by Rod Phillips. ...

  10. 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 ...