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Prepare for post-election pain, no matter who wins Ontario vote
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Aug 20 2011
… a complete rethink of government services is being carried out by a little-known fiscal commission… Its mandate, embedded in the last budget, is to seek out government waste and identify services for privatization… The chair of the Commission on Reform of Ontario’s Public Services, Don Drummond… points out that health takes up nearly half of all program spending in Ontario. He believes up to 25 per cent of it is wasteful… Yet even the most enlightened cuts require a political consensus and Drummond, the man behind the plan, believes the public is not yet prepared.
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