Dear Editor:
The accumulated provincial deficit for Ontario is now at $325 billion. Yes, read that again, it’s $325,000,000,000 – 325 with nine zeros behind it. If the Ontario government was a regular company, it would have declared bankruptcy many years ago.
The past few Liberal governments have spent, spent, and spent more of our money we never had, and complaints about our deficit were everywhere. In the past years, we talked about change with just about everyone we knew … something had to be done.
So after 15 years of the Liberals adding to the provincial deficit by leaps and bounds, we finally brought in the Doug Ford Conservatives. He promised change! But when the cutbacks in a number of things started coming in, nobody liked it.
Recently, cancellation of a French university in Ontario was cut, and protesters came out in the thousands in shock. My son-in-law, a Franco-Ontarian, told me that Doug Ford is right, we don’t need a French university in Ontario, and that there are many open spots in English universities for French programs. He said, “spend the money elsewhere where it’s needed.”
How did Ontarians think the provincial Conservatives would put a halt to our massive deficit spending? I really don’t believe we want to pay more taxes, do we? That leaves only one thing and that’s cuts to programs. But we don’t like it when some programs are cut that affect us, we scream bloody murder! But Doug Ford is not responsible, we are for electing the spendthrift Liberals again and again and again.
We all had a chance to vote in the last provincial election, but the general number of voters who turned out to vote was about a third of the population.
You think we’re in trouble now? Wait until the teachers in Ontario are up for contract renewal. I don’t think Doug Ford will give the teachers union money to come to the arbitration table like Liz Sandals did.
The province, like the rest of the country, is in trouble like never before, and we have only ourselves to blame.
Jacques De Winter, ROCKWOOD