Reevely: Subtracting when they should have added makes NDP's financial forecasts wrongly rosy

The Ontario New Democrats’ budget plan understates the deficits they’d run by $1.4 billion a year because it counts a $700-million expense as government revenue.
This isn’t buried in footnotes. It isn’t the obscure error the Liberals crowed about earlier this week in declarations that were about 85 per cent bull. 
This is in bold type on page 97 of the NDP platform, in the very final calculation. The hard stuff is done by then. Lines and lines of pricing out the part