Andrew Perez THE DIAGNOSIS Ontario is in a funk. Enter technocrat Don Drummond, the former federal mandarin tasked with writing a seminal report for the McGuinty government. The undertaking: revolutionize the way in which public services are delivered in Ontario. Never in recent memory has a government-commissioned report – a two-volume, 668-page document at that…
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Is Ontario’s Ensuing Fiscal Squeeze Salvageable?
Andrew Perez 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…
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