With the election over, pressure to cut public programs has become quite intense. In almost all of the corporate owned media someone is barking on about it. Another option -- increasing revenue from corporations and the wealthy is not mentioned. However, data clearly indicates that Ontario does not have an overspending problem compared to the other provinces. Instead, it indicates Ontario has very low revenue. Ontario has the lowest public spending of all the provinces on a per capita basis (see the chart from the 2014 Ontario Budget below). So there is little reason to suspect that we have an over-spending problem. If anything, this suggests we have an under-spending problem. The Ontario government has also now reported in the 2014 Budget that Ontario has the lowest revenue per capita of any province. This is particularly notable as other provinces are quite a bit poorer than Ontario and therefore have a much more limited ability to pay for public spending.
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan