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The best cure for sea-sickness is to sit under a tree, said the comedian Spike Milligan.

In similar fashion, it seems the best way for Kathleen Wynne to take her mind off the sea of troubles her Ontario government is adrift upon, is to come to Ottawa and tell Stephen Harper where he’s going wrong.

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Not much else was achieved by her visit.

The entente cordiale between the two governments brokered by the recent meeting between the two leaders has surely been shattered by the speech Ms. Wynne gave at a Canada 2020 lunch in the capital on Tuesday.

The premier recalled wistfully the Sixties-era social union between prime minister Lester Pearson, Ontario premier John Robarts and Quebec’s Jean Lesage that “helped build our modern country.”

She said this kind of “constructive federalism” is the kind of partnership to which today’s governments should aspire. The goal of this new economic union should be to address the significant infrastructure needs facing the country.