If interest rates rise faster than expected, Ontario’s annual debt interest payments could increase by up to $857 million in 2017/18.

These voluntary relationships clearly benefit the participants, and perhaps that is why the strident opponents resort to hyperbole and fear-mongering.

To eliminate the deficit, Alberta's government should restrain spending.

There are billions more of us humans than there used to be and most of us are living far better than our species has ever lived.