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All that led right into Ford’s narrative about Liberal insiders getting a sweet deal. Right, Donald Trump all over again. Drain the swamp. Then Liberal campaign manager David Herle rose up out the swamp, praising the late Rob Ford with characteristic Liberal sincerity, but dismissing Doug Ford as “a bit of a dick.”

Herle put himself in the spotlight, the last thing a campaign manager should do. Herle’s new prominence was quickly followed by news stories about how he had received millions of dollars in government consulting contracts. Herle made himself a fine illustration of Ford’s point.

Ford said he didn’t trust the government’s accounting and wanted an outside audit of the books, referring to “shady tricks,” that could land people in jail if they were done in private life.

Wynne took the bait, launching into a name-calling meltdown in which she said Ford was just like Trump and “believes in (an) ugly, vicious brand of politics that traffics in smears and lies.”

But then the Globe and Mail came out with a detailed, substantive analysis of what one could fairly call shady bookkeeping, revealing new details about the Liberals’ daffy policy of borrowing money to make our power bills seem lower.

How can it be that Ontarians are likely to elect a man without relevant experience or coherent policies, a guy who might as well have BOGEYMAN tattooed across his ample forehead?

The story illustrates all the hallmarks of the Liberal regime. It features illogical policy put in place to paper over years of incompetence, an attempt to shield the real cost of the plan from the public, and a byzantine accounting regime that will end up costing power users $4 billion more than if the government itself had borrowed the money.