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Protesters may have brought a mock guillotine to Queen’s Park Wednesday, but no one should have expected Premier Doug Ford to lose his head over it.

“I just consider the source,“ said Ford, referring to several masked protesters who dressed in black at a May Day demonstration. Some in the crowd carried signs, saying “chop chop” and others had red flags festooned with the old Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle.

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The premier said he saw the vile prop but didn’t get too upset about it.

“It is unbelievable, but you just have to look at where it’s coming from,” Ford said. “Somebody’s paying people to go out and protest like that to stir stuff up and people know that.”

He added: “Don’t take it too seriously.”

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When it comes to security at Queen’s Park, Toronto Police are generally responsible for the outside grounds while OPP officers look after the inside of the legislative building.

With protests this week from the medical community and the labour movement, one might think that the premier is feeling the heat. He says it is the opposite.

Coming off a successful appearance on Varney & Co. on Fox News and pushing his Ontario is open for business message in New York, he feels it has been a positive week.

The Halloween-style guillotine may have been designed to get Ford to lose his cool.

It didn’t work. Ford kept his head.