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  1. A Turning Point or More of the Same? Ontario's Fiscal Choices in Budget 2019

    As the Ford government approaches its first full budget, it must decide how to confront the $13.6 billion deficit it faces, as well as the stock of public debt forecasted to reach $346 billion this year. There is nothing new about Ontario’s difficult ...

  2. Ford government should heed Michigan's success

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, April 3, 2019 Whenever a new government is elected, as happened in Ontario last year, one of the most important questions is whether it will maintain the policy trajectory of its predecessor or instead chart a different policy ...

  3. Ford’s first budget—will it continue Wynne’s spend-fest

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 13, 2019 With the Ford government’s first budget rapidly approaching, the new government faces many economic challenges. Job one, however, should be eliminating the province’s $13.5 billion budget deficit and staunching ...

  4. Ford government should heed lessons of recent fiscal history

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 21, 2019 In last week’s fiscal update, Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli had a little bit of good news. Ontario’s budget deficit for this year is now forecasted to be $1 billion less than previously thought, at $13 ...

  5. Big deficits or slash-and-burn—the Ford government’s false choice

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, November 28, 2018 The Toronto Sun recently published a letter to the editor from Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli (pictured above) objecting to my last column —specifically, my assertion that the government’s mini-budget ...

  6. On spending and deficits—if nothing changes, nothing changes

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, November 21, 2018 Last week, Finance Minister Vic Fedeli tabled Ontario’s Fall Economic Statement. This “mini-budget” was an opportunity for the Ford government to get serious about putting provincial finances on more ...

  7. ‘Mini-budget’ an early test of Ford government resolve

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, November 14, 2018 This week, Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will table his government’s fall economic statement—an update on provincial government finances—which is expected to be a “mini-budget,” meaning it will also ...

  8. Dear Premier Ford, please look forward—not back

    Appeared in Maclean's, September 26, 2018 This week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford created a committee to investigate the previous Liberal government’s handling of provincial finances including its accounting methods. Premier Ford compared Liberal ...

  9. Balance Ontario’s budget now—not later

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 8, 2018 When Ontario’s Liberal government tabled its 2018/19 budget, which featured a substantial budget deficit, senior officials made it clear that going back into the red was a choice—not a necessity dictated by ...

  10. Ontario now adding debt even faster than before

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, April 4, 2018 Last week, Finance Minister Charles Sousa tabled Ontario’s budget for 2018/19. The fact that the free-spending budget creates an operating deficit of nearly $7 billion this year has been widely reported, but this ...