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What’s a government to do when its long-promised pet pension project is finally sent to the dustbin of unachievable political ideas? When a handful of top executives have been hired, then laid off, to the tune of $2.8 million, and $8 million worth of marketing is sent down the drain the instant the plan is finally put to rest? When the total cost of Ontario’s Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) is revealed to have been upward of $70 million, even though the project never actually made it beyond the “idea” phase? Well, if you’re Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government, you congratulate yourself for a job well done.

Back in June, when the federal government announced an agreement to enhance the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP), Premier Wynne declared that the deal would not have been reached had she not been “a thorn in the side of many of (her) colleagues.”

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“I kept bringing this up. I kept making it clear that we were moving ahead (with the ORPP), and I kept making it clear that we all knew that there was a national problem,” she said at the time.