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Ontario suffered through a decade of anaemic economic performance as private sector job and median household income growth paled in comparison to most of the country, a new Fraser Institute report shows.

Ontario’s Lost Decade: 2007-2016, a Fraser Institute Bulletin by Ben Eisen and Milagros Palacios, examines key indicators, including real economic growth per capita and accumulated government debt.

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There’s a good reason for people in Ontario to feel a sense that the economy is not performing and hasn’t delivered prosperity for their families, Eisen said.

“Because in a large chunk of the province, it hasn’t,” he said.

The Kathleen Wynne government has been touting good economic news in 2017, but the Fraser Institute argues it would take not one year but many to make up ground lost during the previous decade.

“It’s very important when we’re thinking about the economy to make sure that we look at the longer term to understand how well the economy is actually performing overall over a longer period of time … A view emerges of Ontario as under performing relative to the rest of the country and indeed I would argue under performing relative to its potential,” Eisen said.