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Can you live with this budget?

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Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's budget for Ontario aims to cap salaries for government employees who collectively consume about 55 cents of every dollar the province spends.

The budget's belt-tightening measures include delaying and cancelling infrastructure projects; implementing a means test for seniors' drugs; pooling public sector pensions; closing schools and merging school boards; and cutting a subsidy for large electricity users.

 

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Can you live with this budget?

The PC leader says no. Now it's up to the NDP to keep this minority government alive or not.

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