The provincial Conservatives are a weird bunch. They want to fight the provincial debt by increasing it.
They are nominally Conservative but their spending of public money is anything but prudent.
Via labradore – who else? – come two posts and with them two pretty charts that show the change in government spending since 2003 (less debt-related spending).
That’s budgeted spending, above.
The second chart gives the annual spending on programs plus the percentage change from the previous year.
Just keep those in mind whenever you hear a provincial politician talking about the Conservative’s great record on controlling public spending or, as labradore points out, Kathy Dunderdale’s whacked-out claims that the Tories have already reduced.
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