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Dear John,
An effective way of measuring a government’s fiscal policy is by comparing per-person program spending by various Premiers.
A new study published by the Fraser Institute today finds that from 1965 to 2022 in Ontario, the second-highest and third-highest single years of per-person spending on record was under Premier Doug Ford in 2020 and 2021.
In 2020, inflation-adjusted per-person spending was $12,226 and in 2021 was $12,081. Note that COVID-era spending was adjusted to remove one-time, extraordinary spending related to the pandemic.
The highest year of per-person spending (inflation-adjusted) was 2010 under Dalton McGuinty at $12,305.
Despite promises to be more fiscally prudent than its predecessor, the Ford government has essentially continued the spending trends of the Wynne government that came before it.
Read the full study here, and be sure to share it with your friends and colleagues.
Sincerely,
Niels Veldhuis
President
The Fraser Institute
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