LIBERAL MPP PROUD OF TRIPLING THE DEBT

   The mea culpa came after days of controversy over the comments at a breakfast meeting last Thursday with constituents to discuss Premier Kathleen Wynne’s pre-election budget, which improves pharmacare, child and seniors’ care and would push the province back into deficit for six years.
   “With respect, that’s bull----,” he said testily in response to a query from a Mississauga News reporter about the elevated debt in the fiscal blueprint that projects a deficit of $6.7 billion this fiscal year, boosting the overall provincial debt to $400 billion by 2025.
   “We have tripled (the debt) and we’re proud of it, because we can afford it,” Delaney, added in the exchange caught on audio tape.

   “It’s the responsible thing to do. It’s the correct thing to do. It’s what people have asked us to do and I would do it again and do it proudly,” he told the crowd at a Streetsville restaurant.