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Wynne is a former Toronto school trustee with a Master’s degree in linguistics and adult education.

Lysyk is a former senior executive with Manitoba Hydro, a chartered accountant and a certified internal auditor, with an MBA.

Enough said.

More alarming was Wynne’s decision in 2015 to gut a 2004 law, the Government Advertising Act — passed by her Liberal predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, no less — that gave the auditor general the authority to veto politically partisan government advertising.

That’s because when the government uses public money for advertising that has little or no purpose beyond making the governing party look good, it is in effect, funding its re-election campaign with money taken from taxpayers to provide government services.

Wynne steamrolled over Lysyk’s objections, amended the law using her legislative majority, and as a result, according to Lysyk, Wynne’s Liberal government has since spent millions of taxpayers’ dollars on partisan government advertising that Lysyk would have disallowed under McGuinty’s legislation.

Photo by Ernest Doroszuk / Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun

Wynne also ignored unanimous warnings in 2015 from Lysyk and seven other non-partisan, independent, legislative watchdogs — who report to the people of Ontario through the legislature, rather than to the government of the day — that her sale of majority control of Hydro One to the private sector would hide it from public scrutiny.

Because of the sale, these eight financial and ethical legislative watchdogs of the government can no longer investigate the troubled giant utility, the monopoly owner of the province’s transmission grid, which also supplies electricity directly to 1.3 million residential and business customers, mainly in rural and northern Ontario.