Interesting addition to this: In the past 35 years there have been exactly *THREE* years where Ontario ended the fiscal year with less debt than at the start of the year:

1999/00 (only due to the proceeds of the 407 lease)
2000/01
2001/02

If we exclude the first of those (as we should IMO) then there are only two years in the past 35 (probably much more, but earlier data isn't as widely available) where Ontario paid down a dime of debt.  Even when the budget showed a surplus we took on more debt due to off-budget spending (right now Ontario has a net off-budget deficit of almost $10B/year).

Every single year when Miller, Peterson, Rae, Eves, McGuinty and Wynne have been Premier at budget time the Province ended up deeper in debt.