On Twitter reports are that retiring Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is deflecting questions of Ontario's record debt levels by noting record federal debt levels.
I suggest the data shows Ontario, and provinces in general, are adding debt quicker than the federal government; Ontario's share of all provincial debt hasn't moved much for 8 years (Ontario performed poorly during the early McGuinty years when Greg Sorbara was finance minister), but the Ontario debt is a much higher percentage of the federal debt over the same time. That trend actually goes back to the end of the Peterson era in 1990-91.
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