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What if you were paying more than double the price for a product or service than you used to but the product or service just didn’t deliver the way it used to, the quality wasn’t there. Would you keep paying?

That is what we are being asked to do when it comes to education in this province.

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Over the course of the Liberal years in power, spending on education more than doubled, the number of teachers went up even as enrollment dropped significantly, and test scores declined.

Yet faced with trying to tame the province’s deficit, Premier Doug Ford is being warned not to touch education.

Yet he has to. It’s a mammoth line item in the provincial budget and one that will need to be dealt with if the province ever wants to balance the books.

Education currently takes up 21% of all government program spending, the salaries of teachers and teacher assistants make up more that 10% of government program spending alone.