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TORONTO — Ontario’s re-elected Liberals offered a throne speech Thursday that largely regurgitated the May 1 budget that triggered the June 12 election that gave Premier Kathleen Wynne her majority.

It repeated many of the same pledges, such as cash for skills training, a made-in-Ontario pension plan and $29-billion over a decade to fund public transit and transportation projects. It also repeated a promise to release a second poverty reduction strategy within 60 days.

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“Your government’s efforts to lift children out of poverty, send more young people on to postsecondary education and help businesses become more globally competitive are all part of the same equation, because together they add up to more opportunity, more security and more economic growth,” Lt.-Gov. David Onley read.

Your government will implement its plan by convening people first, instead of directing them

It set out the government’s agenda for the next decade and beyond, pledging to be pennywise to meet an “unwavering” goal of slaying the province’s $12.5-billion deficit in three years. But the government will also spend billions on public infrastructure, corporate grants, job skills programs and other measures to help grow the economy.