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This week, I’m sensing more people might be coming around to my skepticism. The Economist added to “Canada’s Donald Trump” file the fact that both men are “big, beefy and blond,” which also describes Chris Farley. (And Rob Ford.) It compared Alberta United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney to Ford, which is weird, and to Trump, which is weirder. Their case — wait for it — is that Kenney is “a conservative accused of sharing Mr. Trump’s penchant for ‘alternative facts’.”

So he’s a politician … who doesn’t always tell the truth. Should we start making a list of politicians who aren’t like Donald Trump?

But it was Hillary Clinton, sorry Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who really dragged the comparison through the garden this week. On Tuesday in Brockville, apropos of his vow to audit the Liberal government’s expenditures if elected premier in June, Ford said that “if Kathleen Wynne tried to pull these kinds of shady tricks in private life, then there would a few more Liberals joining David Livingston in jail.” He was referring to Dalton McGuinty’s former chief of staff, recently sentenced to four months for his role in trying to destroy gas plant-related emails.

The next day, speaking to reporters, Wynne waxed nostalgic about the dignified days of John Robarts and Bill Davis and then went wide. “Let’s just call this … out for what it is. Doug Ford sounds like Donald Trump, and that’s because he is like Donald Trump,” she said. “He believes in ugly, vicious brand of politics that traffics and smears and lies. He’ll say anything about anyone at any time because just like Trump, it is all about him.”

She was just getting started.

“Michelle Obama, whom I admire greatly, recommended that when they go low, we should go high. I loved that idea when she said it, until we ended up with Donald Trump in the White House,” said Wynne. “So, I’m sorry, but not again. Not here, not in Ontario. I’m not going to go high. I’m not going to go low.”

(On Friday, Liberal campaign director David Herle called Ford “a dick” on live television.)