Ontario’s deficits have more to do with unsustainable tax cuts than they do with public spending says Dr. Reuben Roth, a Laurentian University sociologist.
Roth was speaking Tuesday night in Oshawa as part of a province-wide series of town hall meetings hosted by the Ontario Health Coalition.
“Ontario is no Greece and no Spain,” says Roth, “but we inherited two structural deficits from the Harris government.”
Laurentian University’s Reuben Roth with Natalie Mehra
Roth explains that tax cuts and high unemployment have contributed to the current deficit – neither of which are the result of spending on health care and public services.
Roth says the government even brags that Ontario spends the least on program spending than any other province in Canada.
“If we are the lowest, then why cut more?” he asks.
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