Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau’s first face-to-face meeting with a premier will be in the office of Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne.

Trudeau will sit down with Wynne at her Queen’s Park office at 1 p.m. Tuesday before the two leaders attend the funeral of Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor.

There will be a photo-op before the private discussion, but there will be no media availability afterward.

The premier hit the hustings in more than a dozen Ontario ridings for the incoming prime minister and lent him numerous key political aides for his campaign tour.

“I was an enthusiastic supporter of Justin Trudeau during the election,” a smiling Wynne said the morning after the federal Liberals’ Oct. 19 victory.

“And I believe that in the months and years to come, he and I will have a solid working relationship based on mutual priorities and values,” she said.

Tuesday’s meeting, which comes eight days after Trudeau’s election victory and eight days before he is officially sworn in as prime minister, is in sharp contrast to the cold shoulder Wynne got from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Harper famously did not meet with her face-to-face for 396 days in 2014 and 2015.

During the recent 11-week federal campaign, his Conservatives promised to do all they could to derail Wynne’s Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, deriding it as “a payroll tax.”

It is expected the two Liberals will discuss the Canada Pension Plan — which Harper refused to bolster, leading Wynne to unveil the ORPP — as well as Trudeau’s $130-billion pledge to boost infrastructure, which fits in with Wynne’s 10-year, $30.5-billion plan to build transit, roads and bridges.

Last week, the premier predicted there would be a “new tone” with Ottawa once Trudeau was sworn in — indeed, she was one of the first leaders he spoke to the night he won.

His Liberals triumphed in 80 of Ontario’s 121 seats, compared to 33 for the Conservatives and eight for the New Democrats.

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