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Ontario wanted the $23-billion gap between the tax dollars Ontarians send to Ottawa and what the province gets back in federal transfers addressed, but the federal budget left them bitterly disappointed. And in the Golden Horseshoe, the government's greenbelt plan has farmers and developers fuming.
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