Ontario’s budget for 2017-18 ran a $600 million surplus! During the next few years, a series of small deficits will be used to help ordinary Ontarians, families, seniors, youth, schools, hospitals, the disadvantaged and the poor get back to where they might have been had the Province been able to run surpluses all these years, and invest in them during the recession. The banks can wait a few years. It’s your turn now. At the end of a few years of catch-up investment, Ontario will again be back into structural surpluses. That’s why Ontario will run a few small budget deficits. Because important things in health care an for seniors have to be done, and they have to be done now.