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The fact shouting, placard-waving protesters briefly surrounded Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s car when he was leaving Ogden Junior Public School Wednesday after announcing, ironically, new anti-bullying measures, was no surprise.

But what was amusing was hearing New Democrat and Liberal MPPs argue the reason for the teachers’ anger (to be fair, we don’t know that all of them were teachers) was that the government has failed to communicate with them.

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Seriously?

Have the Liberals and NDP forgotten how many times their governments clashed with Ontario’s perpetually angry teacher unions — for the Liberals from 2003 to 2018, for the NDP from 1990 to 1995?

Everyone knows the teacher unions have been angry with every provincial government in Ontario for decades, no matter which party is in power.

Surely, the Liberals haven’t forgotten that when they were in government in 2012, Don Drummond, their hand-picked economic advisor, warned them class sizes needed to be increased because of declining enrolment and increasing costs.