BLACK HOLE OF LIBERAL FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY

The province’s Financial Accountability Office cast doubt last week on the ability of Premier Kathleen Wynne to balance Ontario’s budget by 2017-18, as she has long promised.

Given new spending commitments by the government and predictions of more modest economic growth, the accountability office projected the deficit in 2017-18 at $2.6 billion, increasing to $3.7 billion by 2020-21.