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Is Ontario’s Ensuing Fiscal Squeeze Salvageable?

In Andrew Perez on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 am

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The Backdrop

Ontario just can’t get a break. Once the economic backbone of Canada, the province was paralyzed by the global economic crisis that ravished the globe three years ago. Fast forward to January 2012: the province is saddled with a $16-billion dollar deficit and a rate of growth that is slower than that of some other provinces. With scarce natural resources to draw upon and a deep reliance on the U.S. economy, Ontario’s fiscal outlook is more severe than that of other provinces.

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Andrea Horwath, Dalton McGuinty, HST, Ontario Election, Tim Hudak

Race for Pink Palace unleashes mix of policy, politics, and the inevitable ‘wild card’

In Andrew Perez, Politics, Public Policy on September 16, 2011 at 9:00 am

Andrew Perez

The Public Policy and Governance Review asked current and former students to write a series of posts on the major policy events of the summer as we begin the fall semester. Today is the third of the series, setting us in the timely context of the Ontario provincial election.

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The Backdrop

Campaign buses hit the road in Ontario this week in what will be the third election for Ontario voters in twelve months. Next month’s Ontario vote comes on the heals of an anti-incumbency tsunami that ravaged some of the province’s largest cities last Fall; it also follows a historic federal election result last spring which manifested itself in a structural realignment of our political order. Add to that a turbulent global economy, an increasingly unpopular mayor in Ontario’s largest city, Toronto, and the untimely death of Jack Layton – resulting in a spike in NDP support – and you have a rather remarkable backdrop to the October 6th election. Read the rest of this entry »

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Barack Obama, Dalton McGuinty, Gordon Campbell, HST, Michael Ignatieff, Rob Ford, Stephen Harper, Tea Party Movement, Tim Hudak, Toronto

The ‘Anti-Incumbency Tsunami’

In Politics on December 21, 2010 at 10:30 am

[Ed: The opinions expressed are those of the author.]

An anti-incumbency tsunami has ravaged North America in recent weeks. Voters both in Canada and the United States are turning out in record numbers to turf traditional career politicians in favour of political neophytes who have successfully tapped into a volatile electorate. Stylizing themselves as populists, they have successfully tapped into a capricious electorate, running clever campaigns characterized by a simple message and underpinned by little or no policy.

Buoyed by the political events of recent weeks, pundits throughout North America have begun to opine on the intricacies of just how this political wave caught so much of the political and media establishment so off guard. After much debate, the obvious consensus has become one that all can agree upon: the global economic recession has finally begun to take a toll on our domestic politics.

Indeed, the previous few weeks have truly been remarkable in North American politics. At the municipal level, Ontarians voted in large numbers to jettison incumbent mayors in urban centres throughout the province. Read the rest of this entry »

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