Economic growth in spite of the premier

Tuesday’s Citizen informed us that Premier Kathleen Wynne is trying to get us to think that Ontario’s economy is perking up due to her government’s initiatives. If our economy is improving, it is in spite of, not because of, anything the Liberals have done.

Former premier Dalton McGuinty spent Ontario into an economic hole, and Wynne has carried on by spending us into a cesspool.

Between McGuinty and Wynne, Ontario’s debt has more than doubled and the province is so short of cash to do anything that Premier Wynne has pressured the federal government to provide billions for infrastructure projects since there is no money for those projects in the provincial treasury.

The premier brags about the big spending on education now paying dividends. She should inform all those university graduates now working in retail and other low-paying service industries how lucky they are even though they have no jobs in their fields of study.

Perhaps she ought to admit that her government’s small contributions to a trillion-dollar economy makes very little difference in how that economy performs and are in no way responsible for most of the improvements she currently claims.

McGuinty and Wynne can claim one thing for certain, and that is that they have been extremely effective in running up Ontario’s debt. That debt, and it alone, should be considered their legacy to the citizens of Ontario.

Robert John Patten, Orléans