Jim Coyle
Premier waxes biblical as economy sinks

To gauge the state of affairs in Ontario it's always useful to take note of Premier Dalton McGuinty's oratorical allusions.

When the economy was humming, to hear him speak was like reading Malcolm Gladwell or Thomas L. Friedman, the air full of peppy pop-cult buzzwords and the latest in economic theory about a world gone flat or turned hot, crowded and needing to get green.

Since things have soured in Ontario – the auto crisis, the job losses, the evaporating revenue, ...

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