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Ontario spent record sum on advertisements ‘to promote’ governing party: AG | Globalnews.ca

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65% Informative

Ontario spent $104.6 million on advertising in the fiscal year ending at the end of March .

That is the most amount any Ontario government has ever spent on advertising.

The two biggest campaigns run over the past year focused on Ontario ’s economy and were worth roughly 65 per cent of all government advertising last year .

The auditor general found the advertisements were compliant with current legislation but would have broken partisanship rules abolished in 2014 .

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71

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71

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54

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

58

Offensive language

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short-lived

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