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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
February 29, 2024 09:00AM

I would just like to say that this government needs to acknowledge that you have—and this, believe me, comes from the Fraser Institute: This government has the highest combined debt per person—actually, the second highest. Newfoundland is the only province that has a higher combined debt than Ontario. So while you put out all these numbers and say that you are going to save people money—you’re not.

In fact, the biggest expenditure of this government is interest payments on the debt. The debt has ballooned under this government at the same time as you’re underfunding—you have the lowest per capita spending on the things that people need, like hospitals and like education. So how does this square up? How can you have a huge debt and deficit but you’re not spending enough money and you’re saving people taxpayer dollars? No. They have to pay the taxes on the debt that you have accumulated.

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