Between 2003 and 2014, inflation-adjusted per-person economic growth in Ontario averaged just 0.3 per cent annually.
ontario government debt
October 13, 2016
10:25AM
Since 2007, Ontario has seen its net debt approximately double, from $157 billion to $308 billion.
April 12, 2016
3:00AM
Annual average job-creation for 2014 to 2016 is below the rate seen during the immediate post-recession recovery period.
March 19, 2016
3:10AM
Why has Ontario racked up so much debt?
February 18, 2016
11:51AM
Ontario’s net debt is projected to climb to 40.2 per cent of the provincial economy this year.
February 3, 2016
2:50PM
Ontario will run its eighth consecutive budget deficit in 2015/16, with a projected $7.5 billion shortfall.
January 6, 2016
10:48AM
Ontario’s net debt has approximately doubled over the last decade and now stands at roughly $300 billion—or $21,000 per Ontarian.
November 13, 2015
2:35PM
The Ontario government has dug itself deep into debt and continues to spend more than the revenue it brings in each year.
December 13, 2014
10:00AM
When the federal government faced a growing debt problem in the late 1980s, then Opposition finance critic Paul Martin was initially skeptical about cutting spending.
July 19, 2014
6:00AM
The other day former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, fumed at a column by economist Jack Mintz who noted the similarities between the current Kathleen Wynne government and Rae’s reign as premier of Ontario, specifically the “high deficits, debt and taxes.”