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Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will release his party’s first budget Thursday and Ontarians — in his often-used Goldilocks analogy — will finally see if it’s too hard, too soft or just right.

— The Doug Ford government’s goal for its budget: “Our plan is to return the Province to balance in a responsible manner, while protecting what matters most — preserving critical public services, including our health care and education system.”

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— NDP MPP Catherine Fife on the budget: “We’re already seeing the results of the Ford cut-and-privatize agenda — from autism services, to increasing class sizes, to layoffs of education and health-care workers across the province. What we want from Doug Ford’s first budget is for this government to stop taking things away from people. Hard-working Ontarians deserve more from the government, not less.”

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— What the budget is likely to do: Bring down the deficit number from December’s projected $13.5 billion.