Ontario Debt Is Worse Than California

"California is routinely criticized by pundits, politicians and economists for its inability to control spending and reduce deficits. Yet Ontario, with a fraction of California's population and a significantly smaller economy, carries a debt load almost twice as large as California's," said Sean Speer, associate director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Comparing the Debt Burdens of Ontario and California.
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