Rocksteady writes: "Mike Harris government in the late 90s which was the most repressive government in Ontario since [...]"
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In the past 35 years in Ontario there has been exactly ONE Premier who ever ended a fiscal year with less public debt than they started, and that is Mike Harris.  Excluding debt paid down by asset sales, the only years Ontario had less debt at the end than they started was fiscal 2000/01 and fiscal 2001/02.

It is easy to be a "nice" Premier when you are doing so using borrowed money, as every other Premier before and after Mike Harris has done every single year they were in power.