Steele writes: “During the Great Recession, Ontario’s balanced budgets of 2006 and 2007 gave way to $20-billion-a-year deficits in 2008 and 2009.” It wasn’t the Great Recession for Canada. The 1981-82 recession under Justin Trudeau’s daddy was much worse. The sentence should read “With the 2008-09 recession, the surpluses of 2005-06 to 2007-08 gave way to a deficit of 6,409 in 2008-09, and 19,262 in 2009-10.” The province has been in deficit ever since.