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More bad news leaked from the Drummond Commission

With no public release, the contents of the Drummond Commission’s preliminary report are slowly emerging via statements from the party leaders.

The latest is from PC leader Tim Hudak, who said Drummond is recommending a 2 per cent per year reduction in spending on everything outside of health and education to 2018/19. Hudak says his party would support the minority Liberals on implementing that plan.

Earlier in the week Dalton McGuinty said that the government would constrain spending increases to one per cent per year, which is a significant cut when inflation is running at 3.4 per cent.

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