Ending, not extending, political welfare is an easy step towards respecting taxpayers and cutting wasteful spending

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is asleep at the wheel and pushing down on the debt accelerator.

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But the fall economic statement is a chance for the premier to wake up and turn the car around before we drive into the ditch.

Ford campaigned on running a fiscally responsible government in contrast to his predecessors Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, promising that “the party is over with the taxpayers’ money.” He argued that Wynne’s 2018 budget was a typical case of Liberal recklessness with the province’s finances — a budget that resulted in $7.3 billion of borrowing for government operations.

So that must mean the Ford government is borrowing less than the........

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