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Matthew Lau: Ontario needs better budgets than it has been getting

With taxes and spending high and the budget still not balanced, it's hard to tell the Ford government from Liberal predecessors

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As last Thursday’s provincial budget confirmed, Ontario is now entering the 23rd year of the McGuinty-Wynne government. True, both Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne are long gone from politics, and their Ontario Liberal Party is out of power. But their tax, borrow and spend policies — which impoverished Ontario and made the province an economic laggard — remain. In fact, under Doug Ford, they have gotten worse.

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