You can’t blame Ontario’s problems on a shortage of government revenues.
government spending ontario
Novembre 14, 2016
2:52PM
Ontario’s net debt burden will climb to $370 billion by 2020.
Septembre 29, 2016
11:28AM
Many Canadian jurisdictions are following the U.S. lead by enacting policies that undermine economic freedom.
Décembre 29, 2015
1:49PM
During 10-year period, major federal transfers to Ontario rose from $10.9 billion to $20.4 billion—an increase of 87.8 per cent.
Décembre 21, 2015
3:00AM
Between 2001 and 2008, Ontario provincial government spending grew at an average of five per cent annually while revenues only grew four per cent.
Juin 19, 2014
6:00AM
Roughly 12 hours after Premier Kathleen Wynne was re-elected in Ontario with a majority government, bond markets and international credit rating agencies sent her a powerful message about the province’s dismal public finances.
Mars 28, 2012
2:00AM
On Tuesday, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan had one of those rare opportunities of which politicians can only dream. With his province heading toward a fiscal crisis caused by mounting debt and out-of-control spending, an opposition sympathetic to dealing with the problem, a public that clearly wants his government to address the debt, and news outlets that understand the need for significant fiscal restraint, everything lined up for Duncan.
Mars 4, 2012
2:00AM
In his recent shot at Alberta, Ontarios premier Dalton McGuintywho blamed the Wests resource boom for a slowdown in Ontarios manufacturing sectorinvented a fascinating explanation for the relative decline of Ontario.
While McGuinty later backtracked and claimed his original clear point was not his actual opinion, what is yet transparent is how, in McGuintys world, Ontarios problems have nothing to do with his own policy choices, or events outside of Canadasay, worldwide competition in the manufacturing sector.
While McGuinty later backtracked and claimed his original clear point was not his actual opinion, what is yet transparent is how, in McGuintys world, Ontarios problems have nothing to do with his own policy choices, or events outside of Canadasay, worldwide competition in the manufacturing sector.