Kathleen Wynne: Christy Clark

Ontario Dept: Two provinces, both led by Liberal governments, will make major economic announcements today. There are some surface similarities between the situations in Ontario and British Columbia: both feature female premiers who inherited a bit of a mess from predecessors who had been around for nearly a decade. Both would rather not fight an election right now though one doesn t have a choice . And both have a deficit to slay, though B.C. s Christy Clark is more likely to come at it from the right and Ontario s Kathleen Wynne from the left more on that in a minute, according to Globe and Mail. First up is Ontario, where the legislature returns for the first time since it was prorogued in the fall. The Throne Speech at 3 p.m. ET will be Ms. Wynne s first time to lay down some concrete goals and throw the opposition parties a bone in the hopes they won t defeat her minority government. On balance, most expected proposals, such as closing corporate-tax loopholes and more spending on social priorities, will play better with the NDP, who might be more likely to prop up the Liberals for now. Ms. Wynne won the leadership a few weeks ago largely on the promise that she would make the current legislature work and not force an unnecessary election. Today will give the first true indication of whether that strategy will work and a tale of two provinces The situation in Ontario (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.