Based on her twitter feed these days, former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne believes Ontario’s books were in great shape up to June of last year, when she lost power to Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives.
Because no matter where Ford looks to reduce the size and cost of government these days in order to address the fiscal train wreck the Liberals left the province in, Wynne is now front and centre claiming his government’s actions are misguided, illogical, cruel and dangerous.
In other words, Wynne is essentially arguing any reduction to 15 years of Liberal overspending that reduced the Ontario government to one of the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrowers isn’t justified.
That Ford should have continued Wynne’s record of spending $40 million a day more than her government was taking in, in revenues.
That Ford should have reignited Wynne’s brawl with the legislature’s independent, non-partisan fiscal watchdogs — the auditor general and financial accountability office — in alternately ignoring and challenging their findings on the dismal state of the province’s finances under her government.
For Wynne, apparently, Ford doesn’t need to be concerned, as she wasn’t, that Ontarians are now paying $13.3 billion annually just to service the province’s interest on debt, which totalled $347 billion when the Wynne Liberals finally lost power.
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