A former Liberal Premier of BC, Gordon Campbell, will conduct a rapid Commission of Inquiry into the previous Liberal government’s spending practices with a report to be issued by August 30. Ontario Premier Ford announced the independent inquiry Tuesday and said the government is taking bids from outside experts to conduct a line-by-line audit of government books. Ford said the inquiry will provide answers on what went wrong with the province’s finances while the audit will shed light on how the government can fix those issues. The current provincial debt is nearly $350 billion dollars, the largest non-sovereign government debit in the world. That’s nearly $23,000 per Ontario citizen, even the school kids. In recent years, the auditor general, Bonnie Lysyk, has suggested the government understated its deficit by billions.
