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During a constituent briefing about Ontario’s new budget, a Liberal MPP said he was “proud” of the province’s high levels of debt and “would do it again.”

“We have tripled (the debt) and we’re proud of it, because we can afford it,” MPP Bob Delaney said in comments published by the Mississauga News.

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Ontario’s debt, which currently stands at $311.7 billion, is the most held by any sub-sovereign government in the world. It has also grown precipitously under the current Liberal government, who first took government when Ontario’s debt stood at $138.8 billion.

Delaney, the MPP for Mississauga—Streetsville, was first brought to office in 2003, when the Liberals under Dalton McGuinty began their now-15-year governance stretch.

On Thursday morning, Delaney was hosting a community budget briefing at Mississauga’s Mondello Ristorante. “See how Ontario will invest in health care, child care and seniors during the 2018-19 fiscal year,” read an event listing, which also promised free breakfast.