Another look at the budget speech
Counting the terms used in Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's economic statement
Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan tabled his budget Thursday, revealing in his speech to the legislature that the government will rack up a record $14.1-billion deficit in 2009, while committing billions to projects aimed at pulling the province out of recession.
The following wordle graphic analyzes that speech to see which terms appeared most often in Duncan's prepared remarks, roughly 3,300 words in length.
- EXTERNAL LINK: Full text of finance minister's speech
The larger the size of the word in the graphic, the more times it appeared in the speech. The word "tax" was used 51 times in the statement, while the word "become" was deployed three times.
Note: Common words such as "the" and "and" — as well as functional terms including "Mr. Speaker" (24 times), Ontario (59 times) and Ontarians (20 times) — aren't included.
