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Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford and NDP leader Andrea Horwath said Wednesday there’s only one good thing about Premier Kathleen Wynne’s 2018 budget.

It’s that it’s the last one she’ll ever deliver.

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Let’s hope so, because the budget Finance Minister Charles Sousa unveiled reveals Wynne is doubling down on massive deficit spending in a desperate bid to get her unpopular government re-elected on June 7.

Deficit spending that produced a “lost decade” from 2007 to 2016, as the Fraser Institute describes it, in which Ontario, the engine of the Canadian economy before the Liberals got hold of it in 2003, finished 10th and dead last among the provinces in median household income growth.

A lost decade in which Ontario’s economic upturn in 2017 — which is all the Liberals wanted to talk about Wednesday — doesn’t make up for the economic devastation they caused from 2007 to 2016.

Despite that, Wynne is promising more of the same.