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But he doesn’t make decisions for Ontario. Wynne does that, and she’s had a remarkable run of late. If Justin Trudeau should become prime minister, we all have to hope he doesn’t govern like Kathleen Wynne.

On Tuesday we learned that Wynne’s Liberals paid consultants and lawyers $6.5 million to advise on the sale of a Crown agency for just $6 million. The sale itself produced a loss of $61 million. On Thursday we further learned that, over the past two years, Wynne’s cabinet funnelled more than $2 million to consultants and ad agencies with Liberal ties. The biggest recipient was The Gandalf Group, run by David Herle, who was Wynne’s chief strategist in the 2014 election and also works for Trudeau. Gandalf got over $1.1 million.

Maybe it’s just a coincidence that, on the weekend, Trudeau announced he would find $3 billion towards his campaign promises by — among other things — slashing budgets for consultants and cutting the budget for partisan advertising. Who did he have in mind, the federal Conservatives or his friend Kathleen Wynne?

Wynne knows a thing or two about advertising. When the Liberals first came to power in 2003, they declared themselves disgusted at the previous government’s abuse of taxpayer-funded advertising to promote their own interests. They introduced a law requiring all ads be approved by the auditor general to end such abuse. Once Wynne became premier, however, she decided the restriction was too cumbersome, and gutted the law despite public opposition from auditor general Bonnie Lysyk. Now Wynne’s government is happily running a TV campaign extolling the virtues of its plan for an Ontario-only pension plan, claiming it’s all about informing the public.