Canada’s two most populous provinces will unveil their 2018 budgets this month — Quebec on March 27, Ontario the next day. CAQ leader François Legault was preferred as premier over Couillard by a margin of 27 per cent to 15 per cent. Unfortunately for them, Sousa is no Leitão, and Wynne has shown nothing like Couillard’s respect for sound finances. Quebec has a balanced budget with healthy surpluses that can be used to lessen the pain of a downturn. Neither good times nor bad times was ever the right time to get the books in order.

Source: National Post March 19, 2018 12:11 UTC